[lxc-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Make python scripts deal better when non-root

[Stéphane Graber]

The LXC API currently doesn't work terribly well when the user isn't root for
a variety of reasons.

The python binding therfore immediately returns an exception if a non-root
user tries to access a container object (as the C calls would fail anyway).

These commits update the various python scripts to check whether the user is
root before invoking the python module so that we can return a nicer error
message to the user, suggesting the use of sudo to run the script as root.

Stéphane Graber (3):
  lxc-start-ephemeral: Use argparse errors
  lxc-ls: Show a simple error message when non-root
  lxc-device: Show an error message when non-root

 src/lxc/lxc-device             |  6 ++++++
 src/lxc/lxc-ls                 |  7 +++++++
 src/lxc/lxc-start-ephemeral.in | 11 ++++-------
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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