fix: Crash on sudo telepresence

this is a fix for telepresenceio#460 Signed-off-by: rohan47 <rohanrgupta1996@gmail.com>
rohan47 · Aug 30, 2018 · d95abbc · d95abbc
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commit d95abbc
Showing 1 changed file with 11 additions and 5 deletions.
diff --git a/telepresence/startup.py b/telepresence/startup.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 import ssl
 import sys
+import os
 
 import json
 from subprocess import CalledProcessError, STDOUT
@@ -89,11 +90,16 @@ def __init__(self, runner: Runner, args) -> None:
                     stderr=STDOUT,
                 )
             except CalledProcessError:
-                raise runner.fail(
-                    "No current-context set. "
-                    "Please use the --context option to explicitly set the "
-                    "context."
-                )
+                if os.geteuid() == 0:
+                    raise runner.fail(
+                        "Sudo user detected. Please run without using sudo."
+                    )
+                else:
+                    raise runner.fail(
+                        "No current-context set. "
+                        "Please use the --context option to explicitly set the "
+                        "context."
+                    )
         self.context = args.context
 
         # Figure out explicit namespace if its not specified, and the server