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-rwxr-xr-xtests/chown/separator.sh6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tests/chown/separator.sh b/tests/chown/separator.sh
index f64b7382c..f5ecb5bbd 100755
--- a/tests/chown/separator.sh
+++ b/tests/chown/separator.sh
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ test -n "$id_g" || framework_failure_
id_gn=$(id -gn) || framework_failure_
test -n "$id_gn" || framework_failure_
+# Systems with both local and external groups with conflicting IDs,
+# were seen to fail this test erroneously with EPERM errors.
+test $(getent group | grep "^$id_gn:" | wc -l) = 1 ||
+ skip_ "group '$id_gn' not biunique: " \
+ "$(getent group | grep "^$id_gn:" | tr '\n' ',')"
+
# FreeBSD 6.x's getgrnam fails to look up a group name containing
# a space. On such a system, skip this test if the group name contains
# a byte not in the portable filename character set.