bin/125932: pkg_add(1) doesn't prompt for root credentials and then fails badly

[Bruce Cran]

>Number:         125932
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pkg_add(1) doesn't prompt for root credentials and then fails badly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 24 13:50:06 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bruce Cran
>Release:        7.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD bsdbox01 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb 28 16:53:28 GMT 2008     bruccran at bsdbox01:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
>Description:
Running pkg_add as a normal user fails. It should check if it's being run under root credentials and if not either abort or prompt for the root password.  The following errors are currently displayed:

> pkg_add -r gkrellm
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/gkrellm.tbz... Done.
man/man8/gkrellmd.8.gz: Can't create 'man/man8/gkrellmd.8.gz': Permission denied
include/gkrellm2/gkrellmd.h: Failed to create dir 'include/gkrellm2': No such file or directoryCan't create 'include/gkrellm2/gkrellmd.h': No such file or directory
libdata/pkgconfig/gkrellmd.pc: Can't create 'libdata/pkgconfig/gkrellmd.pc': Permission denied
sbin/gkrellmd: Can't create 'sbin/gkrellmd': Permission denied
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
pkg_add: extract_plist: can not invoke 156 byte tar pipeline: /usr/bin/tar cf - man/man8/gkrellmd.8.gz include/gkrellm2/gkrellmd.h libdata/pkgconfig/gkrellmd.pc sbin/gkrellmd|/usr/bin/tar --unlink -xpPf - -C /usr/local

>How-To-Repeat:
Run pkg_add -r as a non-root user.
>Fix:


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