Backport 1.52:

SF # 555779, import user doesn't work with CGIs

diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index c342bbcf198e2498d9d4aac9985df0457a1449e6..81358cae377b6bfc441d00188d4a0cad410c6d70 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -306,8 +306,10 @@ def expanduser(path):
         i = i + 1
     if i == 1:
         if not os.environ.has_key('HOME'):
-            return path
-        userhome = os.environ['HOME']
+            import pwd
+            userhome = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[5]
+        else:
+            userhome = os.environ['HOME']
     else:
         import pwd
         try: