Changes in / [14e0b47:908a3c3]

Files:

• appendices/dependencies.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter07/createfiles.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/bash.xml (modified) (1 diff)

appendices/dependencies.xml

@@ -219 +219 @@
         <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
         <seglistitem>
-          <seg>Shadow</seg>
+          <seg>Expect and Shadow</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>

chapter07/createfiles.xml

@@ -176 +176 @@
   chapter.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:$(ls -n $(tty) | cut -d" " -f3):101::/home/tester:/bin/bash" &gt;&gt; /etc/passwd
+<screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:101:101::/home/tester:/bin/bash" &gt;&gt; /etc/passwd
 echo "tester:x:101:" &gt;&gt; /etc/group
 install -o tester -d /home/tester</userinput></screen>

chapter08/bash.xml

@@ -74 +74 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">chown -Rv tester .</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Now, run the tests as the <systemitem
+    <para>The testsuite of the package is designed to be ran as a non-root
+    user, owning the terminal connected to standard input.  To satisify the
+    requirement, spawn a new pseudoterminal using
+    <application>Expect</application> and run the tests as the <systemitem
     class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester &lt;&lt; EOF
-PATH=$PATH make tests &lt; $(tty)
+<screen><userinput remap="test">su -s /usr/bin/expect tester &lt;&lt; EOF
+set timeout -1
+spawn make tests
+expect eof
+lassign [wait] _ _ _ value
+exit $value
 EOF</userinput></screen>