Re: Writing scripts in Linux

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:02:58 GMT, Rich Leitner wrote:

Okay, I'm a bit new to shell scripting but learning. What's wrong with
writing a shell script as root so long as the script does not have root
privileges itself?


Shell scripts execute with the privs of the user running them.
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