Extend home directory ownership test for non-standard setups #55
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Various networked environments exist where a user's home directory is not owned by that user. With this patch Byobu checks ownership of .profile too, as a default inclusion of /etc/skel.
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Hmm, if you want this, I think we should only be testing ownership of ~/.profile, if ~/.profile exists. Currently, byobu would run just fine, even if ~/.profile did not exist at all. But with this patch, your test would cause byobu to fail entirely if ~/.profile doesn't exist. |
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Various networked environments exist where a user's home directory is not owned by that user:
With this patch Byobu checks ownership of
$HOME/.profiletoo, as a default inclusion of/etc/skel.Edit: I should also say I've been testing this patch since 2016 on a variety of Ubuntu versions (14.04 - 20.04) and it has been working fine.