From 05d57980465265fa42c349df1c5b1acf28000ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kaso17 <kaso17@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:48:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add root privileges notice

---
 src/Jackett/Services/ServerService.cs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Jackett/Services/ServerService.cs b/src/Jackett/Services/ServerService.cs
index 6dd6f5c3f..b6dd2a4ca 100644
--- a/src/Jackett/Services/ServerService.cs
+++ b/src/Jackett/Services/ServerService.cs
@@ -276,6 +276,20 @@ namespace Jackett.Services
                 logger.Error("Error while getting environment details: " + e);
             }
 
+            try
+            {
+                if (Environment.UserName == "root")
+                { 
+                    var notice = "Jackett is running with root privileges. You should run Jackett as an unprivileged user.";
+                    _notices.Add(notice);
+                    logger.Error(notice);
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                logger.Error(e, "Error while checking the username");
+            }
+
             CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
             // Load indexers
             indexerService.InitIndexers(configService.GetCardigannDefinitionsFolders());