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| author | Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org> | 2016-05-29 11:56:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Quentin Rameau <quinq@fifth.space> | 2016-07-05 13:01:56 +0200 |
| commit | cee8f0186ce3277add9b6a8ac07588be40f0f080 (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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