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author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2011-12-23 07:42:23 +1100 |
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committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2011-12-23 07:42:23 +1100 |
commit | ba3903d416524e0fb002eca971ce6026e5f2c3af (patch) | |
tree | 663c770b3fad42fc957968d6c90bf40a12a713eb /mdadm.c | |
parent | 3e9df86add05b3a759148a8a1760a44887654322 (diff) |
allow --monitor to be run by non-privileged use.
Providing --no-sharing is given, monitoring should be permitted.
Unfortunately the kernel current rejects GET_DISK_INFO and
GET_ARRAY_INFO for non-privileged users which is unjustified.
The info is available in sysfs and we could get it from there,
but for now, require the kernel to be fixed.
Reported-by: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mdadm.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mdadm.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1209,7 +1209,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) require_homehost = 0; } - if ((mode != MISC || devmode != 'E') && + if (!((mode == MISC && devmode == 'E') + || (mode == MONITOR && spare_sharing == 0)) && geteuid() != 0) { fprintf(stderr, Name ": must be super-user to perform this action\n"); exit(1); |