From 0ad889f55d97f14193fbb7e452e70e4767d81437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan De Smet <alan.desmet@ssec.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 11:39:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] CI: Try to run as nobody if running as root
One of the tests relies on there being a file we cannot update the update time on, which doesn't work as root.
---
csppfetch/test.py | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/csppfetch/test.py b/csppfetch/test.py
index da48259..68b5f92 100755
--- a/csppfetch/test.py
+++ b/csppfetch/test.py
@@ -1121,4 +1121,12 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
import logging
#logging.basicConfig(format='%(process)d:%(levelname)s:%(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG)
+ if os.getuid() == 0:
+ import pwd
+ try:
+ pwent = pwd.getpwnam("nobody")
+ except KeyError:
+ raise Exception("Running as root; tried to switch to 'nobody', but there is no account by that name")
+ os.setuid(pwent.pw_uid)
+
unittest.main()
--
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