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_setup_ports.py b/scripts/dpdk_setup_ports.py
index fce099b5..1edf8f87 100755
--- a/scripts/dpdk_setup_ports.py
+++ b/scripts/dpdk_setup_ports.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import shlex
 import traceback
 from collections import defaultdict, OrderedDict
 from distutils.util import strtobool
-import getpass
 import subprocess
 import platform
 
@@ -984,7 +983,7 @@ To see more detailed info on interfaces (table):
 
 def main ():
     try:
-        if getpass.getuser() != 'root':
+        if os.getuid() != 0:
             raise DpdkSetup('Please run this program as root/with sudo')
 
         process_options ()