diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index 99817aa028..c67bc1d4c6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       with:
         postgresql version: '10.7'
         postgresql user: 'postgres'
+        postgresql password: 'postgres'
     - uses: mirromutth/mysql-action@v1.1
       if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'mysql'}}
       with:    
@@ -48,9 +49,12 @@ jobs:
       if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'postgresql' }}
       run: |
         psql --version
-        psql -U postgres -w -c "CREATE DATABASE evennia;"
-        psql -U postgres -w -c "CREATE USER evennia WITH PASSWORD 'password';"
-        psql -U postgres -w -c "ALTER USER evennia CREATEDB;"
+        psql postgreqsl://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE evennia;"
+        psql postgreqsl://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres -c "CREATE USER evennia WITH PASSWORD 'password';"
+        psql postgreqsl://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/postgres -c "ALTER USER evennia CREATED;"
+        # psql -U postgres -w -c "CREATE DATABASE evennia;"
+        # psql -U postgres -w -c "CREATE USER evennia WITH PASSWORD 'password';"
+        # psql -U postgres -w -c "ALTER USER evennia CREATEDB;"
     - name: Setup MySQL database
       if: ${{ matrix.TESTING_DB == 'mysql' }} 
       run: |         
@@ -89,7 +93,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: run test 
       run: |
         echo `pwd`
-        coverage run --source=../evennia --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service ./bin/unix/evennia test --settings=settings --keepdb evennia
+        echo `ls`
+        cd testing_mygame 
+        coverage run --source=../evennia --omit=*/migrations/*,*/urls.py,*/test*.py,*.sh,*.txt,*.md,*.pyc,*.service ../bin/unix/evennia test --settings=settings --keepdb evennia
 
     # we only want to run coverall once, so we only do it for one of the matrix combinations
     - name: run coverall