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From: | Theodoros V. Kalamatianos |
Subject: | coreutils-6.10 tests/misc/pwd-long fails when / is not readable |
Date: | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:26:46 +0200 (EET) |
User-agent: | Alpine 1.00 (LRH 882 2007-12-20) |
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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