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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_subprocess.py9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 2bbdbae..1cebf6b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1791,7 +1791,12 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
name_uid = "nobody" if sys.platform != 'darwin' else "unknown"
if pwd is not None:
- test_users.append(name_uid)
+ try:
+ pwd.getpwnam(name_uid)
+ test_users.append(name_uid)
+ except KeyError:
+ # unknown user name
+ name_uid = None
for user in test_users:
# posix_spawn() may be used with close_fds=False
@@ -1819,7 +1824,7 @@ class POSIXProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
subprocess.check_call(ZERO_RETURN_CMD, user=-1)
- if pwd is None:
+ if pwd is None and name_uid is not None:
with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
subprocess.check_call(ZERO_RETURN_CMD, user=name_uid)