RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] warning when not running "xm" as root

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Currently -unstable requires user must be root to run xm. But 
> the error spit out is not clear enough, or even misleaded 
> ("Error: Error connecting to xend, is xend running?")
> 
> This patch checks to see if the user is root, and warns if 
> not (patched against cset 1.1440)

Thanks. I'd appreciate it if you could knock up a patch that enables the
user/group of the unix domain socket used for xm-xend communication to
be set in xend-config.sxp, defaulting to root/root. It would be great if
you could update the error message accordingly.

Thanks,
Ian
 
> Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ===== tools/python/xen/xm/main.py 1.52 vs edited =====
> --- 1.52/tools/python/xen/xm/main.py    2005-05-13 00:04:56 +09:00
> +++ edited/tools/python/xen/xm/main.py  2005-05-18 12:30:51 +09:00
> @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@
>          sys.exit(1)
>  
>      def main(self, args):
> +        if os.geteuid() != 0:
> +            self.err("xm must be run as root.")
>          try:
>              self.main_call(args)
>          except socket.error, ex:
> 
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