Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#123 new defect

scripts-remove works poorly with non-Athena accounts

Reported by: adehnert Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: autoinstallers Keywords:
Cc:

Description

It's unclear that we should care, but scripts-remove handles being given the "Your personal Athena account" option when run from a non-Athena account (say, debathena-standard) fairly poorly. It seems reasonable for a user to expect that option to do something reasonable with $ATHENA_USER, but currently it doesn't respect $ATHENA_USER at all, and attempts to use $HOME instead of the $ATHENA_USER's corresponding Athena locker.

In sufficiently contrived situations (e.g., $USER corresponds to an Athena user with the same sql.mit.edu password as you), I think this might be able to cause data loss. That said, I haven't been able to think of any situations that actually strike me as particularly likely.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ezyang

  • Priority changed from tiny to minor
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