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| author | Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com> | 2011-02-15 14:03:00 -0500 |
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| committer | Adam Young <ayoung@redhat.com> | 2011-02-15 14:21:08 -0500 |
| commit | aab27a76e2d847533aab7632c657aa88fdd86f7a (patch) | |
| tree | 2dc0c93064d0e9fddd3d00ee8411037c51c80659 | |
| parent | edcdd87bc89dcad82d311dea6e650bff10e04f53 (diff) | |
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Require ipactl be run as root to avoid a lot of misleading error msgs.
Trying to run ipactl as non-root results in a slew of bogus
error messages, some of which come because dirsrv can't read certain
files as the wrong user, some based on our handling of that fact.
ticket 936
| -rwxr-xr-x | install/tools/ipactl | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/install/tools/ipactl b/install/tools/ipactl index 6b6db7806..5d8c6dc25 100755 --- a/install/tools/ipactl +++ b/install/tools/ipactl @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import sys try: + import os from ipaserver.install import service from ipaserver.install import dsinstance from ipapython import config @@ -226,6 +227,8 @@ def ipa_status(): print "Failed to get %s Service status" % svc def main(): + if not os.getegid() == 0: + sys.exit("\nYou must be root to run ipactl.\n") safe_options, options, args = parse_options() |