On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 09:49:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > sudo.prerm will error out unconditionally if there is no root password > set. This breaks the replacement of sudo with sudo-ldap in autopkgtest > environments and makes ugly workarounds necessary. How would we make > this better?
I don't see the issue here. That was put in there for a very good reason: to not bork the system if something goes wrong during the replacement. A system without a root password set is a very unorthodox use case. Running autopkgtest with --env=SUDO_FORCE_REMOVE=yes should make this work. Of course, it would be nicer if the format for d/tests/control offered something like Extra-Environment: to specify (a file with definitions of) additional environment variables for a set of tests. Since there is apparently no good way either to safely determine with authority if you're running under an autopkgtest I think this is not sudo's problem to solve, but that of autopkgtest. Regards.
