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Try harder to become root and speed up by skipping unnecessary sudo's #608

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Try harder to become root and speed up by skipping unnecessary sudo's
ngaro Feb 27, 2021
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Use returncode 127 to check if commands are present
ngaro Feb 28, 2021
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pkexec-support
ngaro Feb 28, 2021
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All warnings/errors should be sent to STDERR
ngaro Feb 28, 2021
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Merge branch 'Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist:master' into try-root-harder
ngaro Jan 21, 2022
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52 changes: 37 additions & 15 deletions Installer-Linux/linux-hosts-installer.sh
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# Copyright (c) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Mitchell Krog - @mitchellkrogza
# Copyright (c) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Nissar Chababy - @funilrys

#
# root has to run the script
#
if [[ $(id -u -n) != "root" ]]
then
printf "You need to be root to do this!\nIf you have SUDO installed, then run this script with `sudo ${0}`"
exit 1
fi

# First Backup Existing hosts file
sudo mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak

# Now download the new hosts file and put it into place
sudo wget https://hosts.ubuntu101.co.za/hosts -O /etc/hosts

exit 0
if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ] ; then
# The 'real' script:
# First Backup Existing hosts file
mv /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak
# Now download the new hosts file and put it into place
wget https://hosts.ubuntu101.co.za/hosts -O /etc/hosts
exit 0
else
# Multiple tricks to run this script as root before running the real script
echo "This script needs to be ran as root, let's switch to root:" > /dev/stderr
sudo $0 && exit 0
if [ $? -eq 127 ] ; then
echo "I can't find 'sudo', I'll try to use 'su' to become root." > /dev/stderr
echo "(Remember that 'su' is considered deprecated (it needs a root password), I strongly recommend installing 'sudo'.)" > /dev/stderr
su -c $0 && exit 0
if [ $? -eq 127 ] ; then
echo "I also can't find 'su', I'll try to use 'pkexec' to run this as root..." > /dev/stderr
pkexec $0 && exit 0
#Check for 126 because 127 is a possible returncode of 'pkexec' so it's not necessarily unavailable
#Because of the '&&' in the command above checks for returncode 0, the else-block can only be entered in case of non-authorization-related problems
if [ $? -eq 126 ] ; then
echo "I can't give you authorization to run this as root, you'll need to find another way to become root..." > /dev/stderr
exit 1
else
echo "Something went wrong with trying to use 'pkexec' to run this script." > /dev/stderr
echo "It could also be that it's not installed in which case you need to install at least 'sudo', 'pkexec' or 'su'" > /dev/stderr
exit 1
fi
else
echo "Something went wrong with trying to use 'su' to run this script" > /dev/stderr
exit 1
fi
else
echo "Something went wrong with trying to use 'sudo' to run this script" > /dev/stderr
exit 1
fi
fi