Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:00:37 +0000 (UTC) From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r221391 - head/tools/tools/vxge Message-ID: <201105031600.p43G0bhZ001159@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gnn Date: Tue May 3 16:00:36 2011 New Revision: 221391 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221391 Log: 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 Modified: head/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c Modified: head/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c ============================================================================== --- head/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c Tue May 3 16:00:26 2011 (r221390) +++ head/tools/tools/vxge/vxge_info.c Tue May 3 16:00:36 2011 (r221391) @@ -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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