Changeset 7406bec for chapter06/coreutils.xml

Timestamp:

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

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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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/coreutils.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/coreutils.xml

@@ -109 +109 @@
     meant to be run as user <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=nobody check-root</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make NON_ROOT_USERNAME=tester check-root</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>We're going to run the remainder of the tests as the
-    <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> user. Certain tests,
+    <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> user. Certain tests,
     however, require that the user be a member of more than one group. So that
     these tests are not skipped we'll add a temporary group and make the
-    user <systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> a part of it:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">echo "dummy:x:1000:nobody" &gt;&gt; /etc/group</userinput></screen>
+    user <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> a part of it:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">echo "tester:x:1000:nogroup" &gt;&gt; /etc/group</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Fix some of the permissions so that the non-root user can compile and
     run the tests:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv nobody . </userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester . </userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now run the tests. Make sure the PATH in the <userinput>su</userinput>
     environment includes /tools/bin.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su nobody -s /bin/bash -c "PATH=$PATH make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes check"</userinput></screen>
 <!--
     <para>The test program test-getlogin is known to fail in a
@@ -133 +133 @@
     passes if run at the end of this chapter.  The test program tty.sh is
     also known to fail.</para>
+
+    <para>Remove the temporary group:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">sed -i '/dummy/d' /etc/group</userinput></screen>
 -->
-    <para>Remove the temporary group:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">sed -i '/dummy/d' /etc/group</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Install the package:</para>