Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:57:45 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
Only possible non-obvious observation is that some kselftests expect as root, and the ssh remote logic extends that to expecting ssh root access to the remote host.
Would it make sense to explicitly add sudo for all privileged operations, to allow for non-root ssh and scp?
I haven't thought about this part much, TBH. I'm not aware of any scheme used in other tests. IIUC the problem is that we need root locally, and then try to SSH over to remote. But normally the SSH keys belong to the non-root user, so SSH'ing as root is annoying?
Yeah. It requires "PermitRootLogin yes" in your sshd_config and installing root keys.
It's not a huge issue, but if we do want to fix it, doing so will be easier early rather than when more tests are added with implicit dependency on having root.