Issue #12336 has been updated by Chris Price. Status changed from Accepted to In Topic Branch Pending Review Branch set to https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/473
Added a pull request for this. Note that the test in question was one of the "which" tests in util_spec.rb. The reporter who initially found this reported that he *DID* have his "HOME" environment variable set, which theoretically means that this test shouldn't have failed for him. I suspect that the failure was being seen due to a combination between this bug and bug #12490, which was causing HOME to be unset as a side effect of a bad spec test. I did add a test that reproduces this w/o depending on that side effect, and I think that this fix is still worthwhile. It basically amounts to slightly better error handling, which is never a bad thing. ---------------------------------------- Bug #12336: executing system commands may fail if user's PATH contains a tilde https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12336 Author: Chris Price Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review Priority: Low Assignee: Chris Price Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/473 As a result of the changes from #5224, we are now unsetting the HOME environment variable when we execute system commands from within puppet. (This applies mostly to the Exec provider, but may also affect other providers that issue system commands.) An exception will be thrown if the following conditions are met: * User's PATH contains a literal '~' character * The command to be executed is not specified via an absolute path Should be reproducible by adding, e.g., "~/bin" to PATH and then running the spec/unit/util_spec.rb tests. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
