Greetings.

On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:10:04 +0200 Reiner Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Dmitry Bogatov <[email protected]>
> 
> 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

Thanks, I have applied it. Noone’s seriously using Debian anymore.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann



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