Changes in chapter08/coreutils.xml [9a612a9:3a673439]

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     meant to be run as user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=tester check-root</userinput></screen>
+    <!-- CLFS note: "su -c" to set the supplementary group IDs.
+         For a normal LFS build, they are already set by 'login' or 'su'.
+         But for CLFS there is no such tool available at the beginning of
+         chapter 7.  Currently coreutils is the only package of which the
+         test suite needs the supplementary GIDs set up.  -->
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su -c 'make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=tester check-root'</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>We're going to run the remainder of the tests as the