severity 527765 normal tags 527765 wontfix thanks Thank you very much for the bug report, Daniel. The behavior you are seeing is actually expected, but we should maybe be more clear about how to get around it.
What you are seeing is a failure in the monkeysphere test harness, which is called by dh_auto_test. As the error message says, the failure in the test harness is caused by unacceptable permissions on the TMPDIR being used by the test harness to test ssh connections. The monkeysphere test harness builds up ssh client/server environments to test monkeysphere-intermediated ssh connections. As required by ssh, the directory tree of certain ssh files may not have "other" writability. '/tmp' does have writability for "other", and therefore the test is failing when the harness tries to build the ssh client environment there and sees the improper permissions. The solution to this problem is to specify a TMPDIR that has proper writability restictions for the user running the test harness. Something like the following should be sufficient: export TMPDIR=~/tmp mkdir -p "$TMPDIR" chmod 755 "$TMPDIR" Note: there is a small bug in the output of the test harness log that has been fixed upstream. The output should probably be reading: > ... > ms: checking path permission '/tmp'... > ms: improper group or other writability on path '/tmp': > ms: group: w, other: w > ... which would indicate that '/tmp' has unacceptable uo+w permissions. I assume that pbuilder accepts the TMPDIR environment variable. I'm not super familiar with pbuilder myself, though, so hopefully someone else can comment on that. We should probably modify the test harness to output a message more clearly why the test failed, and how to get around it. I've tagged this bug "wontfix", since this behavior is intended. I won't close the bug yet, though, in case there are any other comments or opinions about how to do things differently. jamie.
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