[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 374 don't make assumptions about cwd

[Martin Nagy]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 17:44 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Don't assume that cwd exists or is writable. I had worked on this 
> previously so that we change to a known writable directory when issuing 
> server certs. Enhance that so we change to the NSS db dir when issuing 
> the self-signed CA. certutil wants to write a file to the cwd when 
> generating a key so we need to be some place writable.
> 
> Also handle the case where cwd is an invalid directory. I tested this with:
> 
> term 1: mkdir foo
>          cd foo
> 
> term 2: rmdir foo
> 
> term 1: ipa-server-install ...
> 
> Probably not a major issue but not hard to more carefully handle it 
> either. The installation will still fail but at least we have a good 
> message when it does.
> 
> rob

Cool, I actually hit this problem once, thanks.
ACK

Martin