Getting content of the file with 0640 permissions leads to Permission denied

[serhiy-yevtushenko]

Hi,

when trying to do test with filebeat, which obtains the content_str of the file with permission 0o640, I obtain the following exception:

self = <file /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml>, decode = True

def _get_content(self, decode):
    out = self.run_test("cat -- %s", self.path)
    if out.rc != 0:

      raise RuntimeError("Unexpected output %s" % (out,))

E RuntimeError: Unexpected output CommandResult(command='cat -- /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml', exit_status=1, stdout=None, stderr='cat: /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml: Permission denied\n')

Similar test passes without problems, when using serverspec

[serhiy-yevtushenko]

One should use --sudo argument, then it works

[philpep]

Note that you can activate sudo locally with the sudo fixture