kill: Fix test-admins' ability to kill

By testing access to /bin/true, we were getting false negatives as we meant to be testing for access to /bin/kill. With our configuration, any sudo access indicates access to /bin/kill. Signed-off-by: Zack Cerza <[email protected]>
ceph · Apr 12, 2024 · e66a632 · e66a632
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diff --git a/teuthology/kill.py b/teuthology/kill.py
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def kill_processes(run_name, pids=None):
         log.info("Killing Pids: " + str(to_kill))
         sudo_works = False
         if pids_need_sudo:
-            sudo_works = subprocess.Popen(['sudo', '-n', 'true']).wait() == 0
+            sudo_works = subprocess.Popen(['sudo', '-n', '-l']).wait() == 0
             if not sudo_works:
                 log.debug("Passwordless sudo not configured; not using sudo")
         for pid in to_kill: