Source: systemd
Version: 232-15
Severity: normal
Several of the upstream tests require root privileges as otherwise they
do nothing:
if (geteuid() != 0)
return;
It seems we missed issues because of that like the recent RAS/seccomp
incident has shown [1].
E.g. test-seccomp was rightfully failing on i386, because the seccomp
sandboxing is not working properly there, but this went unnoticed.
Copying individual tests into the -dev packages [2] is a slight
improvement, but it's kinda ugly to ship the test binaries in the
package and it requires ongoing maintenance.
Most importantly, it's incomplete, there are a few more tests which
require root privs and that list is changing over time.
We should run the complete test suite as root via autopkgtest.
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5215#issuecomment-277162523
[2]
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/?id=ac866cbd3825e1
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn dracut <none>
ii initramfs-tools 0.127
ii udev 232-15
-- no debconf information
