[Buildbot-devel] Running tests as a particular user

[john gale]

missed this thread, not sure which system you're using...  but on a  
Mac if you install the buildbot plist into a user's ~/Library/ 
LaunchDaemons, then the buildbot process will be run as that user.

	~ john

On May 28, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Malini Das wrote:

> Thanks for the input!  Unfortunately, the best workaround I employed  
> was to write an expect script as part of the ShellCommand to log in  
> as a user... oh well!  Thanks again
>
> Malini
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell  
> <dustin at zmanda.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner
> <smilner at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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 :-).
>
> Perhaps, but I'm disinclined to get Buildbot into the business of
> running shell commands -- they're *very* fickle.
>
> This might make the beginning on an interesting set of "recipes",
> though..  hmm..
>
> Dustin
>
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