From 07a829acf07289a305b28505866f3ae74fb1d0cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas Wang <me@nicho1as.wang>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:38:44 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] attempt of fix to #182 (#184)

Co-authored-by: IceCodeNew <32576256+IceCodeNew@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 install-dat-release.sh | 10 ++++++++--
 install-release.sh     | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/install-dat-release.sh b/install-dat-release.sh
index cf5093a..84e9f17 100644
--- a/install-dat-release.sh
+++ b/install-dat-release.sh
@@ -29,8 +29,14 @@ curl() {
 check_if_running_as_root() {
   # If you want to run as another user, please modify $UID to be owned by this user
   if [[ "$UID" -ne '0' ]]; then
-    echo "error: You must run this script as root!"
-    exit 1
+    echo "WARNING: The user currently executing this script is not root. You may encounter the insufficient privilege error."
+    read -r -p "Are you sure you want to continue? [y/n] " cont_without_been_root
+    if [[ x"${cont_without_been_root:0:1}" = x'y' ]]; then
+      echo "Continuing the installation with current user..."
+    else
+      echo "Not running with root, exiting..."
+      exit 1
+    fi
   fi
 }
 
diff --git a/install-release.sh b/install-release.sh
index 54b1219..ebe8eec 100644
--- a/install-release.sh
+++ b/install-release.sh
@@ -47,8 +47,14 @@ systemd_cat_config() {
 check_if_running_as_root() {
   # If you want to run as another user, please modify $UID to be owned by this user
   if [[ "$UID" -ne '0' ]]; then
-    echo "error: You must run this script as root!"
-    exit 1
+    echo "WARNING: The user currently executing this script is not root. You may encounter the insufficient privilege error."
+    read -r -p "Are you sure you want to continue? [y/n] " cont_without_been_root
+    if [[ x"${cont_without_been_root:0:1}" = x'y' ]]; then
+      echo "Continuing the installation with current user..."
+    else
+      echo "Not running with root, exiting..."
+      exit 1
+    fi
   fi
 }