Re: Call for release testing

On Aug 23 16:10, Darren Tucker wrote:
> Damien Mascord wrote:
> > One small issue, is that the tests assume that there is an existing
> > installation with privsep, and hence require a /var/empty directory to
> > exist in the filesystem.
> >
> > run test connect.sh ...
> > Missing privilege separation directory: /var/empty
> > FATAL: sshd_proxy broken
> >
> > After creating the /var/empty directory, the tests pass correctly... is
> > this desired behaviour for the test suite ? Should the tests be run
> > inside a fakeroot or chroot instead ?
>
> Probably not.
>
> A real chroot requires root privs and must be created (which is fiddly
> and very system dependant).
>
> fakeroot and friends have to be installed/provided and require a
> LD_PRELOAD which is not available on some platforms.
>
> I probably ought to be documented as a limitation, though. Or maybe we
> could check for the existence of the user and directory and disable the
> privsep tests if missing (eg by unsetting SUDO).

Is there a problem to make the privsep path configurable?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat, Inc.

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