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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:25:24 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/su su.c
Message-ID:  <86d59dlhp7.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200609290441.k8T4fbIE008707@repoman.freebsd.org> (Luoqi Chen's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:41:37 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <200609290441.k8T4fbIE008707@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Luoqi Chen <luoqi@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>   Log:
>   Do not chdir(2) until after setuid(2), otherwise "su - username" would =
fail
>   when root doesn't have the permission to enter target user's home direc=
tory.
>   If set, PAM environment variable HOME will be used in chdir(2) instead =
of
>   pwd->pw_dir, this allows pam_chroot module to continue to function.

Thank you.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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