From 531e08b2394fb7935fdd128f52445e5191c8ca6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:26:39 -0400
Subject: replace stat with ls (sigh) and make su more portable.

---
 src/common | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/common')

diff --git a/src/common b/src/common
index 48739d9..22ed1b1 100644
--- a/src/common
+++ b/src/common
@@ -399,9 +399,9 @@ check_key_file_permissions() {
     local gAccess
     local oAccess
 
-    # function to check that an octal corresponds to writability
+    # function to check that the given permission corresponds to writability
     is_write() {
-	[ "$1" -eq 2 -o "$1" -eq 3 -o "$1" -eq 6 -o "$1" -eq 7 ]
+	[ "$1" = "w" ]
     }
 
     user="$1"
@@ -410,10 +410,9 @@ check_key_file_permissions() {
     # return 0 is path does not exist
     [ -e "$path" ] || return 0
 
-    owner=$(stat --format '%U' "$path")
-    access=$(stat --format '%a' "$path")
-    gAccess=$(echo "$access" | cut -c2)
-    oAccess=$(echo "$access" | cut -c3)
+    owner=$(ls -l "$path" | awk '{ print $3 }')
+    gAccess=$(ls -l "$path" | cut -c6)
+    oAccess=$(ls -l "$path" | cut -c9)
 
     # check owner
     if [ "$owner" != "$user" -a "$owner" != 'root' ] ; then
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