diff --git a/.github/workflows/genesis-openembedded.yml b/.github/workflows/genesis-openembedded.yml
index f3ffdf6..bde8ffa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/genesis-openembedded.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/genesis-openembedded.yml
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ jobs:
           sudo -E prove -v -It/lib t/common-repo-gate.t
           prove -v t/openeuler.t
           prove -v t/openeuler_mock_template_include.t
+          # The result-directory checks create a directory owned by another uid, so they need root.
+          sudo -E prove -v t/perl_builder_mock_result_permissions.t
           prove -v -Ilib t/openeuler_native_trust_dbpath.t
           prove -v -Ilib t/openeuler_native_cpio_scan.t
           bats t/verify-xcatsn-install.bats
diff --git a/t/perl_builder_mock_result_permissions.t b/t/perl_builder_mock_result_permissions.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f5388e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/perl_builder_mock_result_permissions.t
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# mock 6.8 reloads its uid manager from chrootuid, so it opens state.log, build.log and root.log in
+# --resultdir as that uid. mockbuild-perl-packages.pl runs as root and creates the result
+# directories itself, so each one must be writable by the uid the mock configuration names.
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use FindBin qw($RealBin);
+use File::Basename qw(basename);
+use File::Path qw(make_path);
+use File::Slurper qw(write_text);
+use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
+use POSIX ();
+use Test::More;
+
+use lib $RealBin, "$RealBin/..";
+use MockBuildUtils qw(mock_chroot_uid mock_result_dirs);
+
+# Flush before the first fork below, or the child repeats this file's TAP output on exit.
+$| = 1;
+
+my $tmp = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);
+make_path("$tmp/etc", "$tmp/run");
+
+write_text("$tmp/etc/openeuler-24.03-ppc64le.cfg", <<'CFG');
+config_opts['root'] = 'openeuler-24.03-ppc64le'
+config_opts['chrootuid'] = 1000
+config_opts['chrootgid'] = 1000
+include('templates/openeuler-lts-xcat.tpl')
+CFG
+write_text("$tmp/etc/alma+epel-10-x86_64.cfg", "config_opts['root'] = 'alma+epel-10-x86_64'\n");
+write_text("$tmp/run/mock-deterministic.cfg",
+    "include('$tmp/etc/openeuler-24.03-ppc64le.cfg')\n"
+  . "config_opts['environment']['SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH'] = '1757000000'\n");
+
+is(mock_chroot_uid("$tmp/etc/openeuler-24.03-ppc64le.cfg"), 1000,
+    'the openEuler ppc64le configuration builds as uid 1000');
+is(mock_chroot_uid("$tmp/run/mock-deterministic.cfg"), 1000,
+    'the deterministic wrapper carries the uid of the configuration it includes');
+is(mock_chroot_uid("$tmp/etc/alma+epel-10-x86_64.cfg"), $>,
+    'a configuration that names no chrootuid keeps the uid mock defaults to');
+
+my @own = mock_result_dirs("$tmp/run/perl-IO-Stty", $>);
+is_deeply([map { basename($_) } @own], [qw(srpm restamp-srpm rpm)],
+    'a package build gets the three directories it gives mock as --resultdir');
+ok(-d $_, basename($_) . ' is created') for @own;
+
+SKIP: {
+    skip 'a directory owned by another uid needs root', 7 if $> != 0;
+    # tempdir gives 0700. A run reaches a result directory through /tmp and the work directory,
+    # which the builder creates with the umask root starts with, so make the scratch tree match.
+    chmod 0755, $tmp or die "Cannot make $tmp traversable: $!\n";
+    my @dirs = mock_result_dirs("$tmp/run/perl-Net-DNS", 1000);
+    is(scalar @dirs, 3, 'uid 1000 gets the same three directories');
+    for my $dir (@dirs) {
+        my $name = basename($dir);
+        is((stat $dir)[4], 1000, "$name is owned by the build uid");
+        ok(writable_as(1000, $dir), "$name takes a state.log written by the build uid");
+    }
+}
+
+done_testing();
+
+# writable_as($uid, $dir): true when a process running as $uid can create a log in $dir. The child
+# exits 2 rather than reporting a write it made as root, so a failed setuid cannot read as a pass.
+sub writable_as {
+    my ($uid, $dir) = @_;
+    my $probe = "$dir/state.log";
+    unlink $probe;
+    my $pid = fork() // die "fork: $!\n";
+    if (!$pid) {
+        $) = "$uid $uid";
+        $( = $uid;
+        POSIX::setuid($uid);
+        POSIX::_exit(2) if $> != $uid || $< != $uid;
+        my $fh;
+        my $ok = open($fh, '>', $probe) ? 1 : 0;
+        close $fh if $ok;
+        POSIX::_exit($ok ? 0 : 1);
+    }
+    waitpid $pid, 0;
+    my $status = $?;
+    unlink $probe;
+    return $status == 0;
+}