Bug 97795 – up2date unusable if root's $HOME is not /root

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Bug 97795 - up2date unusable if root's $HOME is not /root

Summary:	up2date unusable if root's $HOME is not /root

Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Adrian Likins
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Reported:	2003-06-21 06:33 EDT by Joe Orton
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:06 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-06-24 20:11:17 EDT
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Description Joe Orton 2003-06-21 06:33:00 EDT

On one system I had to move root's $HOME away from /root after / got near full.
This appears to break up2date, which continually prompts to add the GPG key to
the keyring, and fails to add it when requested.

/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gpgUtils.py 

has a hard-coded:

gpg_home_dir = "/root/.gnupg"

which should really be picked up from $HOME I would have thought.

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-06-24 20:11:17 EDT

$HOME was often invalid in testing for various reasons (most related
to su/sudo/etc) so it was hardcoded.

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2003-06-25 03:12:42 EDT

Picking it up from getpwuid(0)->pw_dir would be a reliable method.

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