[tor-bugs] #13497 [Ooni]: reduce the strictness of checkForRoot

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#13497: reduce the strictness of checkForRoot
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 Reporter:  infinity0  |          Owner:  hellais
     Type:  defect     |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal     |      Milestone:
Component:  Ooni       |        Version:
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 I am writing a setcap wrapper so that you don't need to be root just to
 run the tests that require to capture raw network packets. However, ooni
 explicitly checks for uid=0 for certain tests and fails if this isn't the
 case. Please reduce these user-based checks to more direct feature-based
 checks.

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