[Python-Dev] Running the unit test as root/administrator

Vajrasky Kok sky.kok at speaklikeaking.com
Thu Dec 5 16:21:57 CET 2013


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:06 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>
> Can you please phrase your question more explicit? What is it that
> you want to be done before writing unit tests for the spwd module?

I am asking buildbot of Linux/Unix/BSD with root account. Do we have it now?

>
> Anybody could run the test suite, and somebody might run it as root -
> so you must be asking for something else.
>

Of course, I can write unit test for spwd module right now and mark it
only to be run with root account and skipped with regular user
account. But I would argue that it would be hard to find people
running test suite with root account. That's why buildbot is helping
much in this case.

--Vajrasky


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