remove root check

We can perfectly do icmp without root by using capabalities.  So,
instead of doing unsufficient checks beforehand, we just try and fail if
it doesn't work.

Signed-off-by: Danijel Tasov <m@rbfh.de>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/lib/utils_base.c b/lib/utils_base.c
index 8a03d098..3822bcf1 100644
--- a/lib/utils_base.c
+++ b/lib/utils_base.c
@@ -300,19 +300,6 @@ char *np_escaped_string (const char *string) {
 
 int np_check_if_root(void) { return (geteuid() == 0); }
 
-int np_warn_if_not_root(void) {
-        int status = np_check_if_root();
-        if(!status) {
-                printf(_("Warning: "));
-                printf(_("This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root.\n"));
-                printf(_("To run as root, you can use a tool like sudo.\n"));
-                printf(_("To set the setuid permissions, use the command:\n"));
-                /* XXX could we use something like progname? */
-                printf("\tchmod u+s yourpluginfile\n");
-        }
-        return status;
-}
-
 /*
  * Extract the value from key/value pairs, or return NULL. The value returned
  * can be free()ed.
diff --git a/plugins-root/check_icmp.c b/plugins-root/check_icmp.c
index 2ad644ec..a7fad36a 100644
--- a/plugins-root/check_icmp.c
+++ b/plugins-root/check_icmp.c
@@ -417,9 +417,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
         bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
         textdomain (PACKAGE);
 
-        /* print a helpful error message if geteuid != 0 */
-        np_warn_if_not_root();
-
         /* we only need to be setsuid when we get the sockets, so do
          * that before pointer magic (esp. on network data) */
         icmp_sockerrno = udp_sockerrno = tcp_sockerrno = sockets = 0;