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authorDanijel Tasov <m@rbfh.de>2023-09-23 16:18:08 +0200
committerDanijel Tasov <m@rbfh.de>2023-09-23 16:18:08 +0200
commit8272d73e579739cccbfce61f7401cd5f8b9fd0e0 (patch)
tree42a06d16036835a81c63dbcdf71da0d8155dc4db /plugins-root/check_icmp.c
parentf5c5a7438fa34f2ee2c0b9914806f9a26b56ba59 (diff)
downloadmonitoring-plugins-8272d73e579739cccbfce61f7401cd5f8b9fd0e0.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'plugins-root/check_icmp.c')
-rw-r--r--plugins-root/check_icmp.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
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)
417 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); 417 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
418 textdomain (PACKAGE); 418 textdomain (PACKAGE);
419 419
420 /* print a helpful error message if geteuid != 0 */
421 np_warn_if_not_root();
422
423 /* we only need to be setsuid when we get the sockets, so do 420 /* we only need to be setsuid when we get the sockets, so do
424 * that before pointer magic (esp. on network data) */ 421 * that before pointer magic (esp. on network data) */
425 icmp_sockerrno = udp_sockerrno = tcp_sockerrno = sockets = 0; 422 icmp_sockerrno = udp_sockerrno = tcp_sockerrno = sockets = 0;