After PR#910 some of ours "xmlrpc" tests are failing because user "jenkins" is not able to check whether ipa-server is installed with installutils.is_ipa_configured(). We got "False" because "/var/lib/ipa/sysrestore/" is not world readable.

The question is how we can deal with this. It looks like it would not be good idea to make the directory world readable as there are system configurations backed up.

Leaving this as it is and change permissions before testing might not be good either as this can hit users when testing - http://www.freeipa.org/page/Testing

Tests fails with:

test_xmlrpc/test_attr.py:26: in <module>
    from ipatests.test_xmlrpc.xmlrpc_test import XMLRPC_test, raises_exact
test_xmlrpc/xmlrpc_test.py:134: in <module>
    if not api.Backend.rpcclient.isconnected():
E   AttributeError: 'API' object has no attribute 'Backend'

As we do not finalize API:

if ipaserver is not None and installutils.is_ipa_configured():
         api.finalize()