hwclock: don't check for permissions

The right place to verify user permissions is kernel. The current
situation is too strict (due to previous attempts to use hwclock as
suid that has never been supported).

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

diff --git a/sys-utils/hwclock.c b/sys-utils/hwclock.c
index 21caeb21b47f38e7c569b45d5959df51f1531ed4..d36c9c9b89672ef789c55f0bc4bffea620831382 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/hwclock.c
+++ b/sys-utils/hwclock.c
@@ -1859,11 +1859,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
        argc -= optind;
        argv += optind;
 
-       if (getuid() != 0) {
-               warnx(_("Sorry, only the superuser can use the Hardware Clock."));
-               hwclock_exit(EX_NOPERM);
-       }
-
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT
        if (testing != TRUE) {
                if (adjust == TRUE || hctosys == TRUE || systohc == TRUE ||