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>

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)
         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;