Skip test for username with quote where unsupported.

Only debian-based platforms appear to support usernames with single
quote characters, so skip this test on other platforms.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/spec/functional/resource/user_spec.rb b/spec/functional/resource/user_spec.rb
index 5d627e3c77..4544572a6a 100644
--- a/spec/functional/resource/user_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/functional/resource/user_spec.rb
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ describe Chef::Resource::User, :unix_only, :requires_root do
     File.open("/etc/shadow") {|f| f.read }
   end
 
+  def supports_quote_in_username?
+    OHAI_SYSTEM["platform_family"] == "debian"
+  end
 
   before do
     # Silence shell_out live stream
@@ -134,6 +137,14 @@ describe Chef::Resource::User, :unix_only, :requires_root do
       #  default algorithm for the definition of the user's home directory.
 
       context "and the username contains a single quote" do
+        let(:skip) do
+          if supports_quote_in_username?
+            false
+          else
+            "Platform #{OHAI_SYSTEM["platform"]} not expected to support username w/ quote"
+          end
+        end
+
         let(:username) { "t'bilisi" }
 
         it "ensures the user exists" do