Use os.geteuid() for checking whether we are root, as suggested by
Michael Hudson.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
index c28e5a3..7c28602 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_shutil.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
# See bug #1071513 for why we don't run this on cygwin
# and bug #1076467 for why we don't run this as root.
if (hasattr(os, 'chmod') and sys.platform[:6] != 'cygwin'
- and os.getenv('USER') != 'root'):
+ and not (hasattr(os, 'geteuid') and os.geteuid() == 0)):
def test_on_error(self):
self.errorState = 0
os.mkdir(TESTFN)