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?RCS: $Id: rootid.U,v 3.0.1.1 1995/01/30 14:45:36 ram Exp $
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?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1993, Raphael Manfredi
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?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
?RCS: of the source tree for dist 3.0.
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?RCS: $Log: rootid.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1  1995/01/30  14:45:36  ram
?RCS: patch49: now only prints a single empty line when outputting something
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?RCS: Revision 3.0  1993/08/18  12:09:42  ram
?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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?MAKE:rootid: sed
?MAKE:	-pick add $@ %<
?S:rootid:
?S:	This variable contains the eventual value of the ROOTID symbol,
?S:	which is the uid of root.
?S:.
?C:ROOTID:
?C:	This symbol contains the uid of root, normally 0.
?C:.
?H:#define ROOTID $rootid		/**/
?H:.
: determine root id
rootid=`$sed -e "/^root:/{s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^:]*\).*"'$'"/\1/" -e "q" -e "}" -e "d" </etc/passwd`
case "$rootid" in
'') rootid=0 ;;
*) echo " "; echo "Root uid = $rootid" >&4 ;;
esac