Root privileges required to verify the binary version?

[josegomezr]

connect-ng requires root permissions to print the version information:

Environment:

📅2022-12-06🕙11:47:47 ➜ cat /etc/*release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="15.4"
ID="opensuse-leap"
ID_LIKE="suse opensuse"
VERSION_ID="15.4"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.4"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.4"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Leap"

📅2022-12-06🕙11:48:14 ➜ zypper info suseconnect-ng
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package suseconnect-ng:
---------------------------------------
Repository     : Main Repository
Name           : suseconnect-ng
Version        : 0.0.8~git0.16545bf-150400.1.10
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/>
Installed Size : 10.0 MiB
Installed      : Yes
Status         : up-to-date
Source package : suseconnect-ng-0.0.8~git0.16545bf-150400.1.10.src
Upstream URL   : https://github.com/SUSE/connect-ng
Summary        : Utility to register a system with the SUSE Customer Center
Description    : 
    This package provides a command line tool for connecting a
    client system to the SUSE Customer Center. It will connect the system to your
    product subscriptions and enable the product repositories/services locally.
    suseconnect-ng reduces the size of its runtime dependencies compared to the
    replaced SUSEConnect.


📅2022-12-06🕙11:48:23 ➜ suseconnect --version
Root privileges are required to register products and change software repositories.

📅2022-12-06🕙11:48:27 ✗ sudo suseconnect --version
0.0.8

Expected Result

I run as an unprivileged user suseconnect --version and I see the version.

[djoreilly]

Thanks for the report.

[djoreilly]

fixed inhttps://github.com//pull/161