On 9/12/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.diy-linux.org/x86-reference-build/chroot.html#c-bash > > I took a look more at this. The issue is not full coverage of tests. > The tests are run regardless (DIY says the same). They are just > warnings that they shouldn't be run as root. I assume it's just being > safe that the tests don't do something bad as root. Thanks for the info and research. Is this worth adding as a note in the book?
That would be the right thing, at least. But I'm still thinking about finding a way to run it as non-root. Later I was thinking that some tests certainly could be affected if you were root or not. Tests that were affected by device permissions, for instance. I ran the tests as a dummy user, and they all passed, I think. However, testing as non-root would require a fairly major change in that either shadow would have to move up to the beginning of the chapter, or the su from Ch. 5 coreutils would have to be installed. I'll try to add some of these notes to the ticket. Right now I'm working on glibc-2.4, so that's high priority. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
