On 5 Feb 2020, at 12:38 pm, Ralph Seichter via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

* Michael Orlitzky via clamav-users:

I've been dragging my feet on these updates because I don't know how
to fix this. The least-bad idea I have so far is to just patch the
script to die if it's run as EUID == 0.

I have run the steps the script would perform when run as root manually
because I refuse to run this particular script as root, ever. I have
seen some risky scripts over the years, but this one should be tossed
and rewritten in a secure fashion (quite possibly not in BASH).

-Ralph