From f86358ad7128ed8d8fcdfa23c628bc9888ea9741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Duponchelle <julien@gns3.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:28:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Relax permission check on OSX, it seem returning wrong info
 for setuid

---
 gns3server/compute/base_manager.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gns3server/compute/base_manager.py b/gns3server/compute/base_manager.py
index 0ede64d9..84451138 100644
--- a/gns3server/compute/base_manager.py
+++ b/gns3server/compute/base_manager.py
@@ -325,6 +325,10 @@ class BaseManager:
             # do not check anything on Windows
             return True
 
+        if sys.platform.startswith("darwin"):
+            if os.stat(executable).st_uid == 0:
+                return True
+
         if os.geteuid() == 0:
             # we are root, so we should have privileged access.
             return True