[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #11956: Skip test_import.test_unwritable_directory on FreeBSD when run as (original) (raw)
Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Oct 6 03:33:06 CEST 2011
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On 10/5/2011 8:07 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:55:07 +1100 Cameron Simpson<cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
Equally, why on earth are you running tests as root!?!?!?!?! Madness. It's as bad as compiling stuff as root etc etc. A bad idea all around, securitywise. Especially, I would think, a builtbot. "Oh, let's fetch some shiny new code and run it as the system superuser." Said buildbot probably runs in a VM.
A different perspective is that running buildbot tests as root does not reflect the experience of non-root users. It seems some tests need to be run both ways just for correctness testing.
-- Terry Jan Reedy
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