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Message-ID: <20151123005815.GA883@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 03:58:15 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [bug] JOHN_PRIVATE_HOME ignores $HOME
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.
Alexander
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