[Python-Dev] cpython (3.2): Issue #11956: Skip test_import.test_unwritable_directory on FreeBSD when run as (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Thu Oct 6 04:46:46 CEST 2011

On 05Oct2011 21:33, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: | 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.

Which gets post validated from outside via some magic sanity test? Which gets wiped and rerun from a clean image for the next build?

| 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.

Surely VERY FEW tests need to be run as root, and they need careful consideration. The whole thing (build, full test suite) should not run as root.

Am I really the only person who feels unease about this scenario?

Cheers,

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

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