From 0863cb29ee8085a7a58c9660c2029814153772a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zeeshan Ali <zeeshanak@gnome.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:24:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add utility function for chown

---
 pkg/os/util_linux.go | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/os/util_linux.go b/pkg/os/util_linux.go
index b8268ceb6e..33c392ccbf 100644
--- a/pkg/os/util_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/os/util_linux.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
+	"os/user"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/code-ready/crc/pkg/crc/logging"
@@ -53,3 +54,14 @@ func GetFirstExistentPath(paths []string) (string, error) {
 
 	return readablePath, nil
 }
+
+func ChownAsRoot(user *user.User, filepath string) error {
+	logging.Infof("Will use root access to change owner & group of file %s to %s", filepath, user.Username)
+	cmd := exec.Command("sudo", "chown", fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s", user.Uid, user.Gid), filepath) // #nosec G204
+	buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+	cmd.Stderr = buf
+	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to change owner & group of %s to %s: %s: %s: %v", filepath, user.Username, buf.String(), err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}