Rafael Vanoni wrote: > Alexander Kolbasov wrote: >> I'd prefer the tool to give me the data in any mode without root >> privileges. If I'd like to follow the suggestions and fix anything it >> is quite another story and I would expect to either enter root >> password or just learn the command(s) I need to run as root to >> improve the situation. > > I agree, but asking for root passwd seems the right choice here. > No need to fork the tool. Privileges are a bit more complex than simply root (or not) in OpenSolaris (see privileges(5)).
IMHO it's far easier for the tool to detect if it has sufficient privileges to perform a given operation before, or even detect when it failed to perform an operation due to EPERM, than deal with the implications of having the tool manage privilege escalation, and to do so correctly. That's scary code to write. :) -Eric
