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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:01:13 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [bug] JOHN_PRIVATE_HOME ignores $HOME
On 2015-11-23 01:58, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 04:47:47PM -0800, Alex Dunn wrote:
>> Originally posted to
>> https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1901
>>
>> In `params.h`, `JOHN_PRIVATE_HOME` is set to `~/.john`. The way `~`
>> is evaluated ignores the `HOME` environment variable, so it always
>> tries to write logs and recovery files to the user's actual home
>> directory. (This is causing problems in Homebrew, where we run tests
>> in a sandbox and set `HOME` to a temporary directory.)
>>
>> Is a way to fix this in configuration post-compile, or is it a bug in
>> path_expand?
>
> Neither. It's just the way tilde expansion is implemented now. Given
> your use case, we might add parsing of the HOME environment variable.
>
> Please feel free to introduce and use a custom patch for the time being.
This is now fixed in Jumbo. Here's the same patch against john proper if
you like.
magnum
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