From 833856bd77dc6ea77557ab0659c1459bee393653 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: averyv <avery@averyv.me>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 17:51:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove sudo

Rely on polkit and sensible permissions
---
 pihole | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index 7b5e3eb..b00617e 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -570,14 +570,6 @@ if [[ -z ${USER} ]]; then
   USER=$(whoami)
 fi
 
-# Check if the current user is not root and if the command
-# requires root. If so, exit with an error message.
-if [[ $EUID -ne 0 && need_root -eq 1 ]];then
-  echo -e "  ${CROSS} The Pi-hole command requires root privileges, try:"
-  echo -e "      ${COL_GREEN}sudo pihole $*${COL_NC}"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
 # Handle redirecting to specific functions based on arguments
 case "${1}" in
   "allow" | "allowlist"           ) listFunc "$@";;
-- 
2.50.1