[Bug 228306] Re: Cannot get hard drive temperature as non root user with hddtemp in hardy

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I can confirm that upgrading to Kubuntu 9.04 broke hddtemp (only able to
run as root).  And I did NOT have the sticky bit set before the upgrade
(but it was working fine before the upgrade):

footer at kubuntu64:/usr/sbin$ ll hdd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31928 2008-11-06 08:56 hddtemp

Setting the sticky bit as suggested did fix the issue and I'm able to
get hddtemp as a non-root user:

footer at kubuntu64:/usr/sbin$ sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
footer at kubuntu64:/usr/sbin$ ll hdd*
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 31928 2008-11-06 08:56 hddtemp
footer at kubuntu64:/usr/sbin$ hddtemp /dev/sda | cut -f3 -d:
 37°C

I don't really think setting the sticky bit is the solution but whatever
works!

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Cannot get hard drive temperature as non root user with hddtemp in hardy
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