Changeset 7406bec for chapter06/bash.xml

Timestamp:

05/29/2020 08:06:18 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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Children:

5f24c50

Parents:

51c960d

Message:

Add an unprivileged user, tester, at the
beginning of Chapter 6 for running some tests. This
user is then removed at the end of the chapter.

Update to zstd-1.4.5. Fixes
Update to util-linux-2.35.2. Fixes
Update to bison-3.6.2. Fixes
Update to linux-5.6.15. Fixes

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11864 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/bash.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/bash.xml

@@ -74 +74 @@
     package</quote> if not running the test suite.</para>
 
-    <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
+    <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that the <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user can write to the sources tree:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv nobody .</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem
-    class="username">nobody</systemitem> user:</para>
+    class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su nobody -s /bin/bash &lt;&lt; EOF
-PATH=$PATH HOME=/home make tests
-EOF</userinput></screen>
-
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make tests"</userinput></screen>
+<!--
     <para>The <command>su</command> command above is slightly different from
     other places in the book. The
     reason is that the <option>-c</option> option runs the command without
     a controlling terminal, while the bash test suite needs one.</para>
-
-    <para>Nevertheless, the <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem>
+-->
+    <para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem>
     user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows
     up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results.</para>