diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/skeleton/test/pytestconf.py
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+++ b/cubicweb/skeleton/test/pytestconf.py	Sat Jan 16 13:48:51 2016 +0100
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+# copyright 2003-2010 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of CubicWeb.
+#
+# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+
+"""
+import os
+import sys
+
+from logilab.common.pytest import PyTester
+
+
+def getlogin():
+    """avoid usinng os.getlogin() because of strange tty / stdin problems
+    (man 3 getlogin)
+    Another solution would be to use $LOGNAME, $USER or $USERNAME
+    """
+    if sys.platform == 'win32':
+        return os.environ.get('USERNAME') or 'cubicweb'
+    import pwd
+    return pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
+
+
+def update_parser(parser):
+    login = getlogin()
+    parser.add_option('-r', '--rebuild-database', dest='rebuild_db',
+                      default=False, action="store_true",
+                      help="remove tmpdb and rebuilds the test database")
+    parser.add_option('-u', '--dbuser', dest='dbuser', action='store',
+                      default=login, help="database user")
+    parser.add_option('-w', '--dbpassword', dest='dbpassword', action='store',
+                      default=login, help="database user's password")
+    parser.add_option('-n', '--dbname', dest='dbname', action='store',
+                      default=None, help="database name")
+    parser.add_option('--euser', dest='euser', action='store',
+                      default=login, help="euser name")
+    parser.add_option('--epassword', dest='epassword', action='store',
+                      default=login, help="euser's password' name")
+    return parser
+
+
+class CustomPyTester(PyTester):
+    def __init__(self, cvg, options):
+        super(CustomPyTester, self).__init__(cvg, options)
+        if options.rebuild_db:
+            os.unlink('tmpdb')
+            os.unlink('tmpdb-template')