From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:44:43 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: update-utmp,initctl: drop ppid check
X-Git-Tag: v246-rc1~33^2~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc9d1dbfc827c22ace2e5fb6755f7e7b93aba3b1;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

update-utmp,initctl: drop ppid check

Such checks make debugging harder but serve no useful purpose otherwise.
We got rid of all the checks for root, let's kill those too.
---

diff --git a/src/initctl/initctl.c b/src/initctl/initctl.c
index 7505512fe7e..7b93de0d8ab 100644
--- a/src/initctl/initctl.c
+++ b/src/initctl/initctl.c
@@ -341,11 +341,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         Server server;
         int r = EXIT_FAILURE, n;
 
-        if (getppid() != 1) {
-                log_error("This program should be invoked by init only.");
-                return EXIT_FAILURE;
-        }
-
         if (argc > 1) {
                 log_error("This program does not take arguments.");
                 return EXIT_FAILURE;
diff --git a/src/update-utmp/update-utmp.c b/src/update-utmp/update-utmp.c
index fd24cdc789a..28f1aadabcb 100644
--- a/src/update-utmp/update-utmp.c
+++ b/src/update-utmp/update-utmp.c
@@ -223,9 +223,6 @@ static int run(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         };
         int r;
 
-        if (getppid() != 1)
-                return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL),
-                                       "This program should be invoked by init only.");
         if (argc != 2)
                 return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL),
                                        "This program requires one argument.");