diff --git a/changelog/10765.bugfix.rst b/changelog/10765.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..754abd72c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/10765.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix temp_path fixture always raising OSError on emscripten due to missing getuid
diff --git a/src/_pytest/tmpdir.py b/src/_pytest/tmpdir.py
index ec44623dc..64f1de072 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/tmpdir.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/tmpdir.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ class TempPathFactory:
             # Also, to keep things private, fixup any world-readable temp
             # rootdir's permissions. Historically 0o755 was used, so we can't
             # just error out on this, at least for a while.
-            if sys.platform != "win32":
+            if sys.platform != "win32" and sys.platform != "emscripten":
                 uid = os.getuid()
                 rootdir_stat = rootdir.stat()
                 # getuid shouldn't fail, but cpython defines such a case.