On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:37:20AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 09:11:46 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > At present, autopkgtest-build-lxc creates a container which only has > > system users listed in /etc/passwd. This means that > > autopkgtest-virt-lxc runs all tests as root, which is probably not the > > best of ideas, as it's not a "typical use" of most packages. > > I think I'd prefer to solve this differently: in expendable test > environments like lxc and qemu, we can create the user on-demand just > before testing, rather than having to hard-wire it into the template > container. This avoids having to guess which user is the most appropriate, > which is something I've always been somewhat uncomfortable with: the > answer can be "the one we created ourselves, moments ago". > > https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/148 contains > an implementation of this, but I'm currently fighting with autopkgtest's > test suite, much of which is not routinely run and has (inevitably) > regressed. > > smcv
Hi Simon, Amazing thanks - that sounds like a much better solution. Best wishes, Julian
