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-rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.c | 4 |
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diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c index 6079f4ff..d9ef9927 100644 --- a/fetchmail.c +++ b/fetchmail.c @@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) iana_charset = "US-ASCII"; #endif + if (getuid() == 0) { + report(stderr, GT_("WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.\n")); + } + /* * Note: because we can't initialize reporting before we know whether * syslog is supposed to be on, this message will go to stdout and |