[Bug 1169604] Re: set permission to og+rx on working directory to allow test execution by any user

[Ian Jackson]

Jean-Baptiste Lallement writes ("[Bug 1169604] Re: set permission to og+rx on working directory to allow test execution by any user"):
> The case I'm trying to address, is a test running as root to prepare the
> test environment (for example start/stop services) then drop privileges
> to another user with 'su' to run the actual testsuite.

The current metadata doesn't support ordering or mutual dependencies
between tests, so you have other problems too I think.

But in your particular case, you can have your prep make a temporary
directory owned by the user.

Ian.

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Title:
  set permission to og+rx on working directory to allow test execution
  by any user

Status in “autopkgtest” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  adt-run creates a working directory with mktemp in /tmp/ e.g /tmp/tmp.XXXXXX which is set to the default permissions u+rwx.
  This makes impossible to execute tests with another user than the user who started the tests or root.

  permissions should be changed to og+rx for this directory.

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