test: skip tests failing when run under root

LiviaMedeiros · RafaelGSS · commit f1b74cff9a3c · 2025-07-15T19:03:10.000-03:00
PR-URL: #58610 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Pietro Marchini <pietro.marchini94@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Edy Silva <edigleyssonsilva@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Stefan Stojanovic <stefan.stojanovic@janeasystems.com>
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-config-file.js b/test/parallel/test-config-file.js
@@ -361,7 +361,10 @@ test('should override node.config.json when specificied', async () => {
   strictEqual(result.code, 0);
 });
 // Skip on windows because it doesn't support chmod changing read permissions
-test('should throw an error when the file is non readable', { skip: common.isWindows }, async () => {
+// Also skip if user is root because it would have read permissions anyway
+test('should throw an error when the file is non readable', {
+  skip: common.isWindows || process.getuid() === 0,
+}, async () => {
   chmodSync(fixtures.path('rc/non-readable/node.config.json'), constants.O_RDONLY);
   const result = await spawnPromisified(process.execPath, [
     '--no-warnings',
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-sqlite-backup.mjs b/test/parallel/test-sqlite-backup.mjs
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-import { skipIfSQLiteMissing } from '../common/index.mjs';
+import { isWindows, skipIfSQLiteMissing } from '../common/index.mjs';
 import tmpdir from '../common/tmpdir.js';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { describe, test } from 'node:test';
 import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 skipIfSQLiteMissing();
 const { backup, DatabaseSync } = await import('node:sqlite');
 
+const isRoot = !isWindows && process.getuid() === 0;
+
 let cnt = 0;
 
 tmpdir.refresh();
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ test('throws exception when trying to start backup from a closed database', (t)
   });
 });
 
-test('database backup fails when dest file is not writable', async (t) => {
+test('database backup fails when dest file is not writable', { skip: isRoot }, async (t) => {
   const readonlyDestDb = nextDb();
   writeFileSync(readonlyDestDb, '', { mode: 0o444 });
 
