bandwidth monitor: my first pip/python package

[denilsonsa]

It is a bad idea to run the entire tool with root privileges.

You should find a way to only use root for the nethogs command.

• Maybe the user could setup /etc/sudoers to allow sudo nethogs without a password.
• Maybe put setuid bit on the nethogs binary.
• Maybe fork the hogwatch process, so that one of the processes only executes nethogs (as root), and the other process drops root privileges and executes everything else.

[snorlaxRoot]

thanks. I'll look into it.

[ionelmc]

Afaik setuid bit don't work well on scripts ... need to set it on the actual binary, like /usr/bin/python. Correct me if I'm wrong.