From: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] udev check for UID 0
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:16:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402241937.44079.mbuesch@freenet.de> (raw)
Hi,
As udev is unable to run without UID 0 privileges,
we should check for it early and print out some
information to make the user aware of this.
--- udev.c.orig 2004-02-24 15:24:13.000000000 +0100
+++ udev.c 2004-02-24 19:36:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@
int i;
struct sigaction act;
+ if (geteuid() != 0) {
+ printf("udev requires root (UID 0) privileges\n");
+ goto exit;
+ }
+
action = get_action();
if (!action) {
dbg("no action?");
--
Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]
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2004-02-24 19:16 Michael Buesch [this message]
2004-02-28 0:56 ` [PATCH] udev check for UID 0 Greg KH
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