diff --git a/test/system/001-basic.bats b/test/system/001-basic.bats
index 5c429534a3..e0c7d1a5e9 100644
--- a/test/system/001-basic.bats
+++ b/test/system/001-basic.bats
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ run_podman --noout system connection ls
 # Tests --noout to ensure that the output fd can be written to.
 @test "podman --noout is actually writing to /dev/null" {
     skip_if_remote "unshare only works locally"
+    skip_if_not_rootless "unshare requires rootless"
     run_podman --noout unshare ls
     is "$output" "" "output should be empty"
 }