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| author | Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org> | 2016-05-29 11:56:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> | 2016-06-03 15:09:08 +0200 |
| commit | 1308872b8bd7a2516d0626955abe391af076e711 (patch) | |
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Check $HOME and home dir of $USER before getpwuid()->pw_dir
getpwnam(3) recommends to use $HOME instead of getpwuid()->pw_dir,
as it allows users to point programs to a different path.
Using getpwuid() also breaks namespaces-related use cases,
like `unshare -r`.
Patch was submitted by Dmitry Bogatov on the Debian bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/825397
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
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