From bef4c6465e3716aa83ad935bb03cd57d92eb1878 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert <Robert@TryingToScale.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 19:50:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] check if user can sudo/doas

---
 .bash_aliases | 16 +++++++++++-----
 .gitignore    |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.bash_aliases b/.bash_aliases
index 555c9eb..d659955 100755
--- a/.bash_aliases
+++ b/.bash_aliases
@@ -12,23 +12,24 @@ toggle_protection() {
     local choice
     
     mkdir -p ~/.data
+
+  if id -nG | grep -qwE 'sudo|wheel|doas|admin|root'; then
     
     while true; do
         echo "Do you want protection ON or OFF?"
 	    echo "Protection will look for changes in the system, if found it will alert you. Its not perfect, but a smiple check."
-        echo "Note if truning on, please be an SUDOer or tell root what your doing! This is a global setting!"
         echo "1) ON"
         echo "2) OFF"
         read -p "Enter your choice (1 or 2): " choice
         
         case "$choice" in
             1|on|ON|On|yes|y)
-                touch ~/.data/protectionON
+                touch ~/.data/${USER}_protectionON
                 echo "✓ Protection is now ON"
                 return 0
                 ;;
             2|off|OFF|Off|no|n)
-                touch ~/.data/protectionOFF
+                touch ~/.data/${USER}_protectionOFF
                 echo "✓ Protection is now OFF"
                 return 0
                 ;;
@@ -38,12 +39,17 @@ toggle_protection() {
                 ;;
         esac
     done
+
+  else
+      echo "You cannot become root, so disabling extra protection..."              touch ~/.data/${USER}_protectionOFF
+  fi
+
 }
 
-if [[ -f ~/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh && -f ~/.data/protectionON ]]; then
+if [[ -f ~/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh && -f ~/.data/${USER}_protectionON ]]; then
    source ~/scripts/helper/scan_aliases.sh
 else 
-    if [ -f ~/.data/protectionOFF ]; then
+    if [ -f ~/.data/${USER}_protectionOFF ]; then
        SANE_TEST_FAILED=0
     else
        toggle_protection
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b0a3a3a..f7d0249 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 .data/*.sum
-.data/protection*
+.data/*_protection*