adt-run could export the SUDO_ASKPASS variable to the testbed

[Brendan Donegan]

It would be good to store the location of the SUDO_ASKPASS script on the testbed, so that specific commands can be run as root even though the rest of the test is running as the user.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: autopkgtest 3.11.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-7.7-generic 3.19.0
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Mar 12 15:26:53 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-30 (467 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: autopkgtest
SystemImageInfo:
 current build number: 0
 device name:
 channel: daily
 last update: Unknown
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-02-10 (30 days ago)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Done in http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git/commit/?id=67e6d01f .

The whole sudo handling could probably be generalized to all virt runners at some point, but for now this works with the ssh runner. Tests can now just do "sudo -A". But note that it's not always a given that sudo is available, so either test [ -n $SUDO_ASKPASS ] or be prepared that sudo -A fails, and skip tests accordingly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 3.12

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autopkgtest (3.12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * ssh-setup/adb: Re-enable ssh after reboot, in case an upgrade disables it.
  * ssh-setup/adb: Try to create /userdata/.adb_onlock, to get adb after
    rebooting without human interaction.
  * Fix apt-get install --simulate version parsing with third-party sources.
    (LP: #1430017)
  * ssh-setup-nova: Add --security-groups option. (LP: #1429862)
  * adt-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud: Avoid non-blocking reads from the socket in
    verbose mode, this sometimes causes hangs. Go back to blocking reads, but
    don't wait between them.
  * Fix UnicodeDecodeError on .deb package name reading. (LP: #1430773)
  * adt-virt-ssh: Export $SUDO_ASKPASS to tests if sudo is available.
    (LP: #1431421)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:52:49 +0100