From 13208ecc1ba2826b9f62e36860493565c1628590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:25:09 +0000 Subject: Print a warning that running fetchmail as root is discouraged. svn path=/trunk/; revision=4145 --- fetchmail.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 -- cgit v1.2.3