From 16f94593a18e7a0668df6ed9d4744252185e5876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: averyv <avery@averyv.me>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2025 18:04:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove sudo

Rely on polkit and sensible permissions
---
 pihole | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index 5af46fa6..96acb1ae 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -587,15 +587,6 @@ 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.
-# Add an exception for the user "pihole" to allow the webserver running gravity
-if [[ ( $EUID -ne 0 && ${USER} != "pihole" ) && -n "${need_root}" ]]; then
-  echo -e "  ${CROSS} This 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 "${1}" in
   "-d" | "debug"                  ) debugFunc "$@";;
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)