From: Volker Theile <votdev@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:26:14 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Allow setting an empty homedir
X-Git-Tag: 4.17.0-rc1~24
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a65fccf199667bf1568ca362e24bdcd07d3a8154;p=thirdparty%2Fshadow.git

Allow setting an empty homedir

With the PR 352 it is not possible anymore to run `usermod --home "" <USERNAME>`. This PR will fix that regression.

Related to: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/352

Signed-off-by: Volker Theile <votdev@gmx.de>
---

diff --git a/src/usermod.c b/src/usermod.c
index e994132c8..ddcd64010 100644
--- a/src/usermod.c
+++ b/src/usermod.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include "shadowlog.h"
 #include "string/memset/memzero.h"
 #include "string/sprintf/xasprintf.h"
+#include "string/strcmp/streq.h"
 #include "string/strdup/xstrdup.h"
 #include "time/day_to_str.h"
 
@@ -1062,7 +1063,7 @@ process_flags(int argc, char **argv)
 				}
 				dflg = true;
 				user_newhome = optarg;
-				if (user_newhome[0] != '/') {
+				if ((user_newhome[0] != '/') && !streq(user_newhome, "")) {
 					fprintf (stderr,
 					         _("%s: homedir must be an absolute path\n"),
 					         Prog);