From 72728a87d04ab3027960f7667840e4d4f781bb7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:10:00 -0800
Subject: use sudo to run ethtool

But do it in a manner safe from quoting attacks!
---
 scripts/VyattaQosUtil.pm | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'scripts')

diff --git a/scripts/VyattaQosUtil.pm b/scripts/VyattaQosUtil.pm
index 86b091a..1e77179 100644
--- a/scripts/VyattaQosUtil.pm
+++ b/scripts/VyattaQosUtil.pm
@@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ sub ethtoolRate {
     my ($dev) = @_;
     my $rate = undef;
 
-    open my $ethtool, "ethtool $dev |" or die "ethtool failed: $!\n";
+    open my $ethtool, "-|" 
+	or exec 'sudo', 'ethtool', $dev
+ 	or die "ethtool failed: $!\n";
 
     # ethtool produces:
     #
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