running tests as root

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

hi all...

   I'm actually in the situation where I need to run Apache with 'User root' 
(yes, I know, I know...)

   anyway, I'd like to write tests for that situation, but 
TestConfig::default_user() won't let me run tests as root and setting User 
in extra.conf.in (so that there are two User settings) doesn't seem to 
effect Apache in 1.3.

   is there a particular reason this restriction is coded in such a way that 
I can't get around it, no matter what, if I _want_ to run Apache as root?

--Geoff

Re: running tests as root

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Geoffrey Young wrote:
> 
> 
> Geoffrey Young wrote:
> 
>> hi all...
>>
>>   I'm actually in the situation where I need to run Apache with 'User 
>> root' (yes, I know, I know...)
> 
> 
> ok, I did some digging and now I see some of the issues.
> 
> anyway, I was able to override a few subroutines locally and get my 
> stuff to work, so it's no biggie.
> 
> sorry for the noise :)

If we get more than one request for that feature, we can always add a flag to 
override this override ;)



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Re: running tests as root

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

Geoffrey Young wrote:
> hi all...
> 
>   I'm actually in the situation where I need to run Apache with 'User 
> root' (yes, I know, I know...)

ok, I did some digging and now I see some of the issues.

anyway, I was able to override a few subroutines locally and get my stuff to 
work, so it's no biggie.

sorry for the noise :)

--Geoff