At 07:12 PM 6/11/2007 +0200, Jerome Alet wrote: >Hi there, > >I've got an application which runs as root > >This application calls seteuid to execute part of its code as a lower >priviledged user temporarily. > >after the seteuid call, the MySQLdb module is imported, which was installed >with setuptools 0.6c6. > >then setuptools tries to play with root's .python-eggs directory instead >of ~effective_user/.python-eggs/, because of the way os.path.expanduser() >works (line 1039 in pkg_resource.py)
In these types of situations, it's best to set the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE path explicitly, either via the environment variable or code. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
