Call for release testing

[Corinna Vinschen]

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.