Add root check to run as unprivileged user only

master
Michael Reber 4 years ago
parent ff5b2334b9
commit 28464373b6

@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ import youtube_dl
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from os.path import expanduser
# if running as root...kick out
if os.geteuid()==0:
sys.exit("\nPlease run this script as unprivileged user only.\n")
home = expanduser("~")
def usage(error=0, msg=None):
if msg:
@ -20,11 +26,11 @@ def usage(error=0, msg=None):
print("\tOptions may be replaced with environment variables. Command line options take precedence.")
print("\t\tLADL_USERNAME, LADL_PASSWORD, LADL_DIR, LADL_COOKIES\n")
print("Examples:")
print("\t$ ./linuxacademy-dl.py -u person@exmple.com -p p@ssw0rd https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/346\n")
print("\t$ ./linuxacademy-dl.py -u person@exmple.com -p my_p@ssw0rd https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/388\n")
print("\t$ export LADL_USERNAME=person@example.com")
print("\t$ export LADL_PASSWORD=p@ssw0rd")
print("\t$ export LADL_DIR=/home/jdoe/linux-academy")
print("\t$ ./linuxacademy-dl.py https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/346")
print("\t$ export LADL_PASSWORD=my_p@ssw0rd")
print('\t$ export LADL_DIR=' + str(home) + '/linux-academy-videos')
print("\t$ ./linuxacademy-dl.py https://linuxacademy.com/cp/modules/view/id/388")
exit(error)

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