Re: [PATCH] xfstests: check if qa user can execute commands

[Jan Schmidt <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06.12.2011 16:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:56:29AM +0100, Jan Schmidt wrote:
>> _require_user only checks if the qa user exists in /etc/passwd. It may exist
>> though still not be able to execute anything (e.g. with a /bin/false shell).
>>
>> _user_do cannot determine failure to execute the given command, as it uses
>> _user_do_filter for post-processing which succeeds even if the command
>> fails. Thus, the check should be performed by _require_user.
> 
> Looks good.  Wouldn't
> 
>       su $qa_user -c /bin/true
> 
> be the more normal way to write that test?

I agree. I saw this and thought I'd adapt the (sometimes strange)
predominant bash programming style:

 921 _user_do()
 922 {
 923     if [ "$HOSTOS" == "IRIX" ]
 924         then
 925         echo $1 | /bin/bash "su $qa_user 2>&1" | _filter_user_do
 926     else
 927         echo $1 | su $qa_user 2>&1 | _filter_user_do
 928     fi
 929 }

-Jan