gpgme after setuid

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:03:51 +0200,
Stephan Menzel <smenzel at gmx-gmbh.de> wrote:
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> Am Donnerstag, 3. August 2006 15:39 schrieb Werner Koch:
> > > And gpgme used to work in the daemon too but not anymore. I don't know
> > > what happend but strace shows me gpgme is looking for gpgsm's config
> > > files etc in the homedir of the user who actually started the daemon.
> >
> > That is right.  The home directory is determined by the HOME
> > environment variable.  sudo for example does not change HOME.
> 
> That's it!
> Thank's a lot, you made my day happy despite the rain.

Note that you can also set the home directory to be used explicitely
with gpgme_ctx_set_engine_info.

Marcus