Feat: trashman: try to invoke with sudo if user is not root

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/share/trashman/trashman/functions b/share/trashman/trashman/functions
index 61102e9..48700cd 100644
--- a/share/trashman/trashman/functions
+++ b/share/trashman/trashman/functions
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ trashman_check_exit_status() {
 # Check for superuser privileges
 trashman_check_root() {
   local action="$1"
+  local package="$2"
 
   if [ -z "$action" ]; then
     return
@@ -213,8 +214,15 @@ trashman_check_root() {
   fi
 
   if [ "`whoami`" != "root" ]; then
-    trashman_echo "Action $action requires root privileges"
-    exit 1
+    if which sudo &> /dev/null; then
+      # Try to invoke it with sudo
+      trashman_echo "You're running as a regular user, trying to re-invoke the command using sudo..."
+      sudo $PROGRAM $action $package
+      exit $?
+    else
+      trashman_echo "Action $action requires root privileges"
+      exit 1
+    fi
   fi
 }