diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
index 43e4fbc610e5f7..db17611f7f179d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ def test_expanduser_pwd(self):
                      "no home directory on VxWorks")
     def test_expanduser_pwd2(self):
         pwd = import_helper.import_module('pwd')
-        for all_entry in get_attribute(pwd, 'getpwall')():
+        for all_entry in get_attribute(pwd, 'getpwall')()[:10]:
             name = all_entry.pw_name
 
             # gh-121200: pw_dir can be different between getpwall() and