From 504dc4666e1d327b82c985a88da6e208c8348e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@phys.columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:33:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add check to su_monkeysphere_user to not use su if the user
 is the monkeysphere user.

---
 src/monkeysphere-server | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/monkeysphere-server b/src/monkeysphere-server
index d3ba5e4..0c56279 100755
--- a/src/monkeysphere-server
+++ b/src/monkeysphere-server
@@ -66,8 +66,17 @@ subcommands:
 EOF
 }
 
+# function to run command as monkeysphere user
 su_monkeysphere_user() {
-    su "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" -c "$@"
+    # if the current user is the monkeysphere user, then just eval
+    # command
+    if [ $(id -un) = "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" ] ; then
+	eval "$@"
+
+    # otherwise su command as monkeysphere user
+    else
+	su "$MONKEYSPHERE_USER" -c "$@"
+    fi
 }
 
 # function to interact with the host gnupg keyring
-- 
2.25.1