Fix the way root user is being determined in Python; Running scapy_daemon_server and stl_rpc_proxy now should work without tty;

Change-Id: Id70be83956a9b8279197c68dd58b674e972fc1a9
Signed-off-by: Yaroslav Brustinov <ybrustin@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/dpdk_nic_bind.py b/scripts/dpdk_nic_bind.py
index e797666b..6dec60cb 100755
--- a/scripts/dpdk_nic_bind.py
+++ b/scripts/dpdk_nic_bind.py
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ import texttable
 sys.path.remove(text_tables_path)
 import re
 import termios
-import getpass
 
 # The PCI device class for ETHERNET devices
 ETHERNET_CLASS = "0200"
@@ -729,7 +728,7 @@ def main():
     do_arg_actions()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    if getpass.getuser() != 'root':
+    if os.getuid() != 0:
         print('Please run this program as root/with sudo')
         exit(1)
     main()