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Detect non-root when running launcher flare/doctor on the command-line #1734

Open RebeccaMahany opened 4 months ago

RebeccaMahany commented 4 months ago

We have some checkups that do not work if flare/doctor is not run with elevated permissions. We want to detect if flare/doctor is being run without the necessary permissions and warn the user. If possible, we'd like to proceed by re-execing with elevated permissions; if not possible, we should print instructions for running the command correctly.

The implementation will be a little different on posix vs Windows. On posix, after warning the user, we can re-exec using something like sudo $0. We are not sure if this is possible on Windows.

directionless commented 4 months ago

We may decide that the user experience of this isn't smooth, and the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Some initial experimentation is needed.

RebeccaMahany commented 1 month ago

I think @zackattack01 did most of this issue in https://github.com/kolide/launcher/pull/1824