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authorgnn <gnn@FreeBSD.org>2011-05-03 16:00:36 +0000
committergnn <gnn@FreeBSD.org>2011-05-03 16:00:36 +0000
commit896f8696ac7d9a2b191787641d38afa300a4f490 (patch)
tree27350115037c3619ed54cbc4d5786fa1af6b2efb /tools
parente43878f43c377ac289869d75122d0fb5cdf27114 (diff)
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Give some sort of message when the program is not run as root.
Root privileges are required to talk to the device. Submitted by: Sriram Rapuru at Wipro for Exar Inc. MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c b/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c
index 6a56137..d213d87 100644
--- a/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c
+++ b/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
/*$FreeBSD$*/
#include "vxge_info.h"
+#include <unistd.h>
static int sockfd;
static struct ifreq ifr;
@@ -38,6 +39,15 @@ static struct ifreq ifr;
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
+ uid_t uid;
+
+ uid = getuid();
+
+ if (uid) {
+ printf("vxge-manage: Operation not permitted.\nExiting...\n");
+ goto _exit0;
+ }
+
if (argc >= 4) {
if (!((strcasecmp(argv[2], "regs") == 0) ||
(strcasecmp(argv[2], "stats") == 0) ||
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