On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:54:44PM +0300, Juha Jäykkä wrote: > Steve: you know better than I, which severity is correct, but should the > policy perhaps be more clear as to what is "a user's home directory"? If > it means "whatever $HOME contains", this is severity serious (this was my > reasoning); if it means "whatever getent passwd" returns, then I agree > with you, this is not serious. I think the correct answer would be that > the home directory is whatever getent passwd returns unless $HOME is > defined, in which case $HOME overrides.
Sure, I agree that the behavior you describe is the correct one, and there is room for clarification in policy on this point. It just isn't going to be treated as a release-critical bug any time soon. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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