diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py b/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py
index 59c7820a..b5877b7f 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py
@@ -673,10 +673,10 @@ class LogFileMonitor(LogCaptureTestCase):
 		failure_was_logged = self._is_logged('Unable to open %s' % self.name)
 		# verify that we cannot access the file. Checking by name of user is not
 		# sufficient since could be a fakeroot or some other super-user
+		is_root = True
 		try:
-			with open(self.name) as f:
+			with open(self.name) as f: # pragma: no cover - normally no root
 				f.read()
-			is_root = True
 		except IOError:
 			is_root = False
 
diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/utils.py b/fail2ban/tests/utils.py
index 2ed9b463..852af3ec 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/utils.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/utils.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ if not CONFIG_DIR:
 # Use heuristic to figure out where configuration files are
 	if os.path.exists(os.path.join('config','fail2ban.conf')):
 		CONFIG_DIR = 'config'
-	else:
+	else: # pragma: no cover - normally unreachable
 		CONFIG_DIR = '/etc/fail2ban'
 
 # Indicates that we've stock config: