[Buildbot-devel] Running tests as a particular user

[Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner]

On 26/05/09 21:32 -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Malini Das <malini at sharethrough.com> wrote:
>> I'm new to using buildbot, and I was reading through the manual but I didn't
>> get much help for my problem.  My issue is that part of my test case must be
>> run as a particular user (since I have to call a script that only a certain
>> user can run prior to running the tests) and I was wondering, is there
>> anyway to run a test through buildbot as a particular user?  Thanks!
>
>Probably run a passwordless "sudo" as a shell command?
>
>Dustin
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Just make sure to limit the sudo access to the specific commands
needed. http://linsec.ca/Using_Sudo_to_Limit_Access looks like a good
tutorial.

This might be a cool addition as well to add to buildbot ... extending
shell command or a class that wraps commands and attempts to run a
specified user. Probably something for 1.0 :-).

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