def CheckIsRoot(self):
    if not self._permissions.IsRoot():
      raise web.HTTPError(httplib.FORBIDDEN, 'User %s does not have root credentials.' % self._auth_credentials)
Parse the output from the 'stat' 4letter word command
dataset/ETHPy150Open viewfinderco/viewfinder/backend/www/admin/admin.py/AdminHandler.CheckIsRoot--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open francelabs/datafari/debian7/zookeeper/src/contrib/monitoring/ganglia/zookeeper_ganglia.py/ZooKeeperServer._parse_stat