See the description of many testsuite failures in Issue 12. Running as root disables PDSH_MODULE_DIR use, which is required for some of the module loading tests and most of the pdcp tests. Also, if some portion of the build directory is owned by a different user, pdsh will fail to load any modules due to paranoia about the security of the path.

Though it isn't strictly necessary for the testsuite to run as root, the tests that are failing now should instead be gracefully skipped so as not to appear that the tests are mysteriously failing.

This issue was closed by revision r1298.