[daemon] set $HOME when dropping privileges (closes #81297)

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fde3d9b..6bbb6d1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 ChangeLog for logilab.common
 ============================
 
-2011-10-12  --  0.53.0
+ --
+    * daemon: change $HOME after dropping privileges (closes #81297)
+
+2011-10-12  --  0.57.0
     * only install unittest2 when python version < 2.7 (closes: #76068)
 
     * daemon: make pidfile world-readable (closes #75968)
diff --git a/daemon.py b/daemon.py
index bf7d57c..c8342a8 100644
--- a/daemon.py
+++ b/daemon.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ def setugid(user):
             raise OSError(err, os.strerror(err), 'initgroups')
     os.setgid(passwd.pw_gid)
     os.setuid(passwd.pw_uid)
+    os.putenv('HOME', passwd.pw_dir)
 
 
 def daemonize(pidfile=None, uid=None, umask=077):