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Shell Scripting Prevent setuid root spoofing

Spoofing is a technique through which a user tries to grant unauthorized access on a system by pretending to be the root user. This is called setuid root spoofing. To prevent from spoofing you can add — after #!/bin/bash. It disables further option processing so that shell will not accept any options.

Look at the above snapshot, any argument after — are treated as filenames and arguments. An argument of – is equivalent to –.