Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?

[David Sastre <d dot sastre dot medina at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:41:49PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 18 March 2011 16:23, David Sastre wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:17:14PM +0000, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >> On 18 March 2011 13:46, David Sastre wrote:
> >> > All [[, have been changed to a portable [ test.
> >> > I've changed `test -a' for a portable `test -e', and the -a operator
> >> > in the user's home ownership test to a chained test:
> >> >
> >> > elif [ ! -O "${HOME}" ] && [ "${HOME#/home/}" != "${HOME}" ]; then ...
> >>
> >> Even though that home ownership test was partly my idea, I think it
> >> should simply be dropped, because it doesn't actually address the
> >> security issue it was supposed to address and the warning is likely to
> >> cause unnecessary alarm to users with unusual yet legitimate setups.
> >
> > IIRC, the point was that some apps expect $HOME to be owned by the
> > user in order to operate correctly.
> 
> Originally at least it was supposed to address this:
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2010-09/msg00007.html
> 
> The $HOME warning doesn't address this because for example a
> maliciously prepared /home/$USER/.bash_profile would still get
> sourced.
> 
> I can't remember other reasons.

OK. I'll drop it then.

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