From 5ae5900d26ffa7e158d4847ebeb537714fb9439d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:12:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] PVE/RPCEnvironment.pm: new function setup_default_cli_env

Convenience function for command line tools.
---
 PVE/RPCEnvironment.pm | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PVE/RPCEnvironment.pm b/PVE/RPCEnvironment.pm
index 3ec2c91..30415eb 100644
--- a/PVE/RPCEnvironment.pm
+++ b/PVE/RPCEnvironment.pm
@@ -513,6 +513,23 @@ sub init {
     return $self;
 }; 
 
+# convenience function for command line tools
+sub setup_default_cli_env {
+    my ($username) = @_;
+
+    $username //= 'root@pam';
+
+    PVE::INotify::inotify_init();
+
+    my $rpcenv = PVE::RPCEnvironment->init('cli');
+    $rpcenv->init_request();
+    $rpcenv->set_language($ENV{LANG});
+    $rpcenv->set_user($username);
+
+    die "please run as root\n"
+	if ($username eq 'root@pam') && ($> != 0);
+}
+
 # get the singleton 
 sub get {
 
-- 
2.39.2