On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:11:03AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > -- >8 -- > > Subject: [PATCH] daemon: set HOME when we switch to --user > > Thanks for taking care of it. For what it's worth, > > Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> > > I'm not sure whether to keep 96b9e0e (config: treat user and xdg > config permission problem as errors) in the long run, BTW. There have > been multiple reports about dropping privileges and not being able to > access the old HOME, and I'm not convinced any more that the > predictability is worth the breakage for such people. Though checking > if $HOME is inaccessible and treating that case specially would be > even worse... > > Insights welcome.
I could go either way. I think 96b9e0e is the right thing to do conceptually, but I kind of doubt it was affecting all that many people. And though it's _possible_ for it to be a security problem, I find it much more likely that the site admin tries to set some config, gets annoyed when it doesn't work, and debugs it. So from a practical perspective, 96b9e0e may be doing more harm than good, even though it's the right thing. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
