Makes the hardware info file root owned

install_linux.sh

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ PWD=$(pwd)
 echo "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/env python3 $PWD/lib/hardware_info_root.py" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/green_coding_hardware_info
 
 print_message "Setting the hardare hardware_info to be owned by root"
+sudo cp -f $PWD/lib/hardware_info_root_original.py $PWD/lib/hardware_info_root.py
 sudo chown root:root $PWD/lib/hardware_info_root.py
 sudo chmod 755 $PWD/lib/hardware_info_root.py
 

lib/hardware_info_root_original.py

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+'''There are some values we need to get as root. So there are two scripts one is `hardware_info.py` which is included
+in the main program and the `get_values` method is called. Unfortunately there is no way to get root in a safe way. So
+we have split out the values we can get without being root and then we call this script from the main program with
+sudo. This is why the output is json and not a nice representation as it needs to be machine readable.
+'''
+
+import json
+import platform
+from hardware_info import rdr, get_values
+
+root_info_list = [
+    [rdr, 'CPU scheduling', '/sys/kernel/debug/sched'],
+]
+
+def get_root_list():
+    if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+        return []
+
+    return root_info_list
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
+        print('{}')
+    else:
+        print(json.dumps(get_values(get_root_list())))