diff --git a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
index 4aaaa22f4274f0..338a31fd7f869e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/_test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -6357,6 +6357,7 @@ def test_nested_startmethod(self):
         self.assertSetEqual(set(results), set([2, 1]))
 
     @unittest.skipIf(os.name == "nt", "requires POSIX")
+    @support.requires_non_root_user
     @support.subTests("mode", [
         os.R_OK,  # read-only directory
         os.R_OK | os.X_OK, # read-only directory