> This is at least an explicit declaration that something else ought to
> be treated as ${HOME}; if someone sets it badly, all sorts of things
> are subject to failure.
All sorts of things can be subject to failure. Remote access cannot.
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On 2/8/11 3:29 AM, Vasilis Tsiligiannis wrote:
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 03:51:21 Mark Mentovai wrote:
I wonder why this didn’t just use ~root. There’s no way to disable
tilde expansion in Busybox ash, so ~root should always be available.
It would certainly be more elegant and reliable than th
Vasilis Tsiligiannis wrote:
> It's not so safe, as user home dir can be overriden in a shell by setting
> the "$HOME" environment variable.
This is at least an explicit declaration that something else ought to
be treated as ${HOME}; if someone sets it badly, all sorts of things
are subject to fail
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 t
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 03:19:22 Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Has this been tested where root isn't the first entry in /etc/passwd?
>
> Because there's no requirement for the entries to be sorted on uid...
It should work regardless where "root" is placed in the file.
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Vasilis Tsiligiannis
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 prob
Has this been tested where root isn't the first entry in /etc/passwd?
Because there's no requirement for the entries to be sorted on uid...
On 2/7/11 5:01 PM, openwrt-comm...@openwrt.org wrote:
Author: acinonyx
Date: 2011-02-08 02:01:17 +0100 (Tue, 08 Feb 2011)
New Revision: 25417
Modified:
