On Tuesday 08 February 2011 03:51:21 Mark Mentovai wrote: > I wonder why this didn’t just use ~root. There’s no way to disable > tilde expansion in Busybox ash, so ~root should always be available. > It would certainly be more elegant and reliable than this shell > function, unless there’s a fear that the root user might not be named > root. Given that there’s probably a guarantee that this script is > executed as root (whatever its name may be), ~/ ought to be safe.
It's not so safe, as user home dir can be overriden in a shell by setting the "$HOME" environment variable. -- Vasilis Tsiligiannis
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