On 10/5/2011 8:07 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:55:07 +1100
Cameron Simpson<c...@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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