From: Costa Tsaousis (ktsaou) <costa@tsaousis.gr>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:26:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: check both uid and euid for root
X-Git-Tag: ab-debian_0.20170201.01-0ab1~10^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=netdata.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c58f78f3304c18368e1a5655716ff0807ef1218

check both uid and euid for root
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diff --git a/src/apps_plugin.c b/src/apps_plugin.c
index c17560c1..dc571233 100644
--- a/src/apps_plugin.c
+++ b/src/apps_plugin.c
@@ -3013,16 +3013,13 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
 }
 
 static int am_i_running_as_root() {
-    if(getuid() != 0) {
-        if(debug)
-            info("I am not running as root.");
-        return 0;
+    if(getuid() == 0 || geteuid() == 0) {
+        if(debug) info("I am running as root.");
+        return 1;
     }
 
-    if(debug)
-        info("I am running as root.");
-
-    return 1;
+    if(debug) info("I am not running as root.");
+    return 0;
 }
 
 #ifdef HAVE_CAPABILITY