From: David Goulet <david.goulet@polymtl.ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:02:21 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Fix missing tracing group when UID=0
X-Git-Tag: v2.0-pre1~53
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a463f419cf8678aac3251d3f6b1783288bcaa97c;p=lttng-tools.git

Fix missing tracing group when UID=0

Signed-off-by: David Goulet <david.goulet@polymtl.ca>
---

diff --git a/ltt-sessiond/main.c b/ltt-sessiond/main.c
index a35849381..0ab3ad9a7 100644
--- a/ltt-sessiond/main.c
+++ b/ltt-sessiond/main.c
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ static int check_existing_daemon()
  *  Set the tracing group gid onto the client socket.
  *
  *  Race window between mkdir and chown is OK because we are going from
- *  less permissive (root.root) to more permissive (root.tracing).
+ *  more permissive (root.root) to les permissive (root.tracing).
  */
 static int set_permissions(void)
 {
@@ -1774,8 +1774,13 @@ static int set_permissions(void)
 		(grp = getgrnam(default_tracing_group));
 
 	if (grp == NULL) {
-		ERR("Missing tracing group. Aborting execution.\n");
-		ret = -1;
+		if (is_root) {
+			WARN("No tracing group detected");
+			ret = 0;
+		} else {
+			ERR("Missing tracing group. Aborting execution.");
+			ret = -1;
+		}
 		goto end;
 	}