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Dmitry Bogatov cee8f0186c 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>
2016-07-05 13:01:56 +02:00