[GitLab d.o infra] Allow superuser to call composer on jobs

Migrated issue

Reported by: fjgarlin

Related to !182 (merged)

Problem/Motivation

When testing an updated version of the gitlab-runner on selected issues, some jobs would fail due to composer being run as root (https://getcomposer.org/root).

The current runners don't seem to have a problem with that, but rather than leaving this option unchecked and dependant on the runner, we should make clear via an environment variable.

Whether we change this behaviour in the future or not (ie: run commands as root or not) is out of the scope of this issue for now, but adding this fix will ensure that everything works as expected in the current and the new gitlab-runner.

Steps to reproduce

This is from core, using the new runner, but both core and contrib should have this variable set: https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/drupal-3022876/-/jobs/1305555

Proposed resolution

For now, setting COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 should be enough.

Remaining tasks

MR

Related issue: Issue #3440421

Edited Feb 12, 2026 by drupalbot
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