Added crate sudo in order to provide an easier user experience by giving them an opportunity to escalate their privileges to root when running the app. This is in contrast to having the app exit and the user having the run the app again as sudo.

Author: umizato

Cargo.lock

@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ csv = "1.1"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
+sudo = "0.6.0"

Cargo.toml

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ use crate::network::NetworkIterator;
 use crate::vendor::Vendor;
 
 fn main() {
+    // Upgrade user privileges when needed
+    // ----------------------------------------
+    // Providing a prompt for the user when
+    // the app is run and user is not root    
+    sudo::escalate_if_needed().expect("You need root permissions to run this app. Unable to escalate to sudo");
 
     let matches = args::build_args().get_matches();