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[Bug 257984] Re: ecryptfs-setup-private fails if GREP_OPTIONS is set with --line-number

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From: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:51:23 -0000
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** Changed in: ecryptfs
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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ecryptfs-setup-private fails if GREP_OPTIONS is set with --line-number
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257984
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Status in eCryptfs - Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem: Fix Released
Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

if a user has exported GREP_OPTIONS with --line-number, then the query from /etc/passwd for the user's home directory fails. This is due tot he fact that awk is splitting on : with the -F option, and the line number is prepended with a : before the grep line. 

The result is the user is presented with an error like the following: "ERROR: User home directory [xxxxx] does not exist".

In order to fix this, something similar to the apache init script could be added, which performs the following:

ENV="env -i LANG=C PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"