Tom Lane wrote:
> If we take this patch, what's to stop someone from complaining that we
> broke *their* badly-designed system that abuses the HOME variable?
POSIX warns against doing that, listing HOME in the variables that
should be left to their intended usage:
http://pubs.opengroup.or
On 9/20/16 1:44 PM, Rudolf Gavlas wrote:
> If you think that using the value of HOME variable as the user's home
> directory is bad idea, I won't argue with that, I've already expressed
> my opinion. What is the real problem here is using home directory of a
> user A as a home directory for user B.
> I work in an environment, where servers are administered by people
> with different user names and identical uid (0).
Multiple users with same uid is orthodox indeed. Just out of curiosity -
what environment is this, if it's not a secret?
> The usage of HOME environment variable (if set) is IMO
2016-09-20 18:35 GMT+02:00, Tom Lane :
> Rudolf Gavlas writes:
>> The usage of HOME environment variable (if set) is IMO the right,
>> standard and faster way to get_home_path().
>
> Can you provide some evidence for that claim? I can believe "faster"
> but the rest sounds like wishful thinking.
2016-09-20 18:55 GMT+02:00, Alvaro Herrera :
> Rudolf Gavlas wrote:
>
>> I work in an environment, where servers are administered by people
>> with different user names and identical uid (0).
>
> So everyone is superuser there? That sounds, um, unorthodox.
Yes, the administrators of the servers,
Rudolf Gavlas wrote:
> 2016-09-20 18:55 GMT+02:00, Alvaro Herrera :
> > Rudolf Gavlas wrote:
> >
> >> I work in an environment, where servers are administered by people
> >> with different user names and identical uid (0).
> >
> > So everyone is superuser there? That sounds, um, unorthodox.
>
> Y
Rudolf Gavlas wrote:
> I work in an environment, where servers are administered by people
> with different user names and identical uid (0).
So everyone is superuser there? That sounds, um, unorthodox.
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Rudolf Gavlas writes:
> The usage of HOME environment variable (if set) is IMO the right,
> standard and faster way to get_home_path().
Can you provide some evidence for that claim? I can believe "faster"
but the rest sounds like wishful thinking.
> I work in an environment, where servers are a
Hi,
I work in an environment, where servers are administered by people
with different user names and identical uid (0). The attached patch
fixes a bug exposed in such environments: where the logic of
retrieving a personal configuration file relies solely on
get_home_path(), the different users are
