Hi,
as the subject says, the tests/misc/pwd-long test fails with a 'Permission
denied' error when / is not readable by the user that runs the test. The
reason for this is that it apparently tries to read the '../../../ ...
../../../' directory, which normally points to root.
While the usefulness and/or validity of having / unreadable by
unprivileged users is debatable, at least one Linux distribution
(Mandrake/Mandriva) seems to keep it that way in its "secure" setting and
I was wondering if it would be possible to work around this issue (would
'../misc/../misc/../misc ...' do ?) or at least to make that test run as
root only or be skipped if / is not readable.
Regards,
Theodoros Kalamatianos
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