Can't run as non-root user

[anthonywong]

Since dptfxtract is binary only I want to run it as a non-root user, like this:

1. As root, use acpidump and acpixtract to retrieve ACPI tables
2. As a non-root user, use dptfxtract to generate thermald config file.
3. As root, copy thermald config file over to /etc/thermald

However, dptfxtract is required to be run as root even when I run dptfxtract *.dat -o $OUTPUT.

[Vaesper]

The readme explicitly states this usecase but the binary does not allow it.

[thinrope]

@spandruvada Can you at least comment why you decided to close this issue?

This utility, supplied as a binary blob, should not require root privileges from the start. It doesn't even print help or version info without root!

$ dptfxtract -h
You must be root to run this tool!

[spandruvada]

Anything done in this utility now done in open source in thermald (even with more features). So try without running this utility.