Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mutt
Ubuntu 8.04.1
mutt 1.5.17+20080114-1ubuntu1
openssl 0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.3
The smime_keys perl script (distributed with mutt) uses 'mutt -Q' to
fetch a number of path variables from the mutt configuration. These
path variables may be (and, in fact, some generally are) located in the
user's home directory, in which case mutt returns them as paths relative
to ~/ (e.g., "~/.smime/keys"). smime_keys proceeds to misinterpret this
'~' as an actual directory name, and tries to operate on a literal
directory named '~' located in the current working directory. E.g.,
running 'smime_keys init' from /tmp results in the creation of
/tmp/~/.smime/.
This makes S/MIME key management for mutt extremely difficult, and, in
fact, S/MIME operations from mutt impossible under some circumstances.
** Affects: mutt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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smime_keys misinterprets paths containing '~'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257950
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