Call for testing: OpenSSH 6.9

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Sun Jun 7 13:13:29 AEST 2015


On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, aixtools wrote:

> On 2015-06-01 1:06 AM, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > You were running the tests as root?  I think we need to add
> > PermitRootLogin=yes to the regression tests to cover this case.
> I filed a bug report (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2412),
> prematurely perhaps (i.e., I hope not a duplicate) - and doing a su to michael
> helped the tests along - a lot.
> 
> In the end some of the tests fail because AIX diff does not support the -u
> option. I shall rerun tomorrow with gnu diff installed.

I think we should just remove -u from our diff calls - we've already
done this for other tests.

> As I never use sudo - how is "make tests" expected to work on pristine
> system? Or will sudo just default to letting everyone become root so
> "rootlike" things can be tested? (This is why for builds I test as
> root - so applications can verify they drop "super" powers.

It expects that sudo can be run with any command and root as a target
user.

-d


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