[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] add requires_root option to Command

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 10:24 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Some commands will require that the local user have root permissions. 
> I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to put it but it at least 
> starts the conversation.

Speaking just in general terms I don't like doings things like:
if uid == 0 fail;

I think that we should gracefully catch whatever exception is thrown up
(access denied or whatever) and then return an error.

Some times this is not possible, and I haven't looked at what's around
that patch, so this may be the right way in this case.

Simo.