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-rw-r--r--perl-install/NEWS3
-rw-r--r--perl-install/run_program.pm2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS
index 27d7cdf3e..e272893e3 100644
--- a/perl-install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+- run_program:
+ use home and logname of user we are dropping privileges to, not 501
+
Version 13.11 - 10 February 2010
- add support for asturian (#56990)
diff --git a/perl-install/run_program.pm b/perl-install/run_program.pm
index a59f7a08b..e5ca7d170 100644
--- a/perl-install/run_program.pm
+++ b/perl-install/run_program.pm
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ sub raw {
} else {
if ($options->{setuid}) {
require POSIX;
- my ($logname, $home) = (getpwuid(501))[0,7];
+ my ($logname, $home) = (getpwuid($options->{setuid}))[0,7];
$ENV{LOGNAME} = $logname if $logname;
# if we were root and are going to drop privilege, keep a copy of the X11 cookie: