[Python-Dev] Another buildslave - Ubuntu again

["Martin v. Löwis"]

On 02.05.2012 05:13, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Senthil Kumaran<senthil at uthcode.com>  wrote:
>> Also, I think the instructions in the wiki could be improved. I was
>> not able to su - buildbot after installing through package manager. I
>> shall edit it once I have set it up and running.
>
> The page does say: """... create a new user "buildbot" if it doesn't
> exist (your package manager might have done it for you)""", but it'd
> be nice if it could clarify which are known to do it and which are
> known not to, eg "(the Debian and Red Hat package managers will do
> this for you)". Or is that too much of a moving target to be worth
> trying to specify?

I think a buildbot admin should be able to figure out what user the
buildbot to run under himself; if that already is a challenge, it might
be better if he don't run a build slave.

Regards,
Martin