Against my better judgment, I'm adding a command-line option to allow dumb people to run their bots as root.

scripts/supybot

@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                            'Even if you think you want it, you don\'t.  '
                            'You\'re probably dumb if you do this.')
                       
-
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
 
     if os.name == 'posix':

scripts/supybot-wizard

@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
 
-if os.name == 'posix':
-    if os.getuid() == 0 or os.geteuid() == 0:
-        sys.stderr.write('Please, don\'t run this as root.\n')
-
 import supybot
 
 import fix
@@ -133,7 +129,17 @@ def main():
     log._stdoutHandler.setLevel(100) # *Nothing* gets through this!
     parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage='Usage: %prog [options] [configFile]',
                                    version='Supybot %s' % conf.version)
+    parser.add_option('', '--allow-root', action='store_true',
+                      dest='allowRoot',
+                      help='Determines whether the bot will be allowed to run'
+                           'as root.  You don\'t want this.  Don\'t do it.'
+                           'Even if you think you want it, you don\'t.  '
+                           'You\'re probably dumb if you do this.')
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+    if os.name == 'posix':
+        if os.getuid() == 0 or os.geteuid() == 0 and not options.allowRoot:
+            sys.stderr.write('Please, don\'t run this as root.\n')
+
     filename = ''
     if len(args) > 1:
         parser.error('the wizard takes one argument at most.')