diff --git a/test/parallel/test-config-file.js b/test/parallel/test-config-file.js
index 0e67d12f09a..ea134ce1751 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-config-file.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-config-file.js
@@ -361,7 +361,10 @@ test('should override node.config.json when specificied', async () => {
   strictEqual(result.code, 0);
 });
 // Skip on windows because it doesn't support chmod changing read permissions
-test('should throw an error when the file is non readable', { skip: common.isWindows }, async () => {
+// Also skip if user is root because it would have read permissions anyway
+test('should throw an error when the file is non readable', {
+  skip: common.isWindows || process.getuid() === 0,
+}, async () => {
   chmodSync(fixtures.path('rc/non-readable/node.config.json'), constants.O_RDONLY);
   const result = await spawnPromisified(process.execPath, [
     '--no-warnings',
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-sqlite-backup.mjs b/test/parallel/test-sqlite-backup.mjs
index eba7aaf610a..51955547964 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-sqlite-backup.mjs
+++ b/test/parallel/test-sqlite-backup.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { skipIfSQLiteMissing } from '../common/index.mjs';
+import { isWindows, skipIfSQLiteMissing } from '../common/index.mjs';
 import tmpdir from '../common/tmpdir.js';
 import { join } from 'node:path';
 import { describe, test } from 'node:test';
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
 skipIfSQLiteMissing();
 const { backup, DatabaseSync } = await import('node:sqlite');
 
+const isRoot = !isWindows && process.getuid() === 0;
+
 let cnt = 0;
 
 tmpdir.refresh();
@@ -252,7 +254,7 @@ test('throws if URL is not file: scheme', (t) => {
   });
 });
 
-test('database backup fails when dest file is not writable', async (t) => {
+test('database backup fails when dest file is not writable', { skip: isRoot }, async (t) => {
   const readonlyDestDb = nextDb();
   writeFileSync(readonlyDestDb, '', { mode: 0o444 });