Enhance bugscript to optionally run as root

Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/bugscript b/debian/bugscript
index 4fb920c2..7ecd2ccc 100755
--- a/debian/bugscript
+++ b/debian/bugscript
@@ -28,6 +28,53 @@ if ! command -v yesno >/dev/null; then
   exec 3>&1
 fi
 
+if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then
+  if [ -x "$(command -v sudo)" ]; then
+    yesno "Gather system information as root using sudo? (Y/n) " yep
+    if [ "$REPLY" = yep ]; then
+      echo running sudo "$0" "$@"...
+      sudo "$0" "$@" && exit 0
+      echo "sudo invocation failed, trying /bin/su..."
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  yesno "Gather system information as root using su? (Y/n) " yep
+  if [ "$REPLY" = yep ]; then
+    ARGS=
+    for i in "$@"; do ARGS="${ARGS:+$ARGS }'$1'"; shift; done
+    echo "running su root -s '/bin/sh -c $0 $ARGS'..."
+    su root -s /bin/sh -c "$0 $ARGS" && exit 0
+    unset ARGS
+    echo "su invocation failed."
+  fi
+
+  # arrive here only if neither sudo nor su worked:
+  yesno "Will you provide system information in the bug report yourself? (N/y) " nop
+  if [ "$REPLY" = yep ]; then
+    cat <<_eof >&3
+
+IMPORTANT:
+  please do not forget to include all relevant system information with this
+  bug report. You could run
+    /usr/share/bug/mdadm/script 3>&1
+  as root and attach or include the output.
+
+_eof
+    exit 0
+  fi
+
+  # try our best
+  cat <<_eof >&3
+
+WARNING:
+  the following output was not generated by the root user. If you can, please
+  replace the following up until "-- System Information:" with the output of
+    /usr/share/bug/mdadm/script 3>&1
+  run as root. Thanks!
+
+_eof
+fi
+
 if [ ! -r /proc/mdstat ]; then
   echo "The local system does not have MD (RAID) support: no drivers loaded."
   echo "Without MD support, I cannot collect as much information as I'd like."