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rails, mongrel and mysterious gpgme errors

0 Comments Published December 8th, 2008 in Rails.

Mongrel changes its user and group id to the user you specify when started as another user (say, root).
However, it does not change the environment variables from the user it was started as. In particular, ENV["USER"] and ENV["HOME"] remain set to, say, ‘root’ and ‘/root’ respectively.
If you then try to use the ruby gpgme wrappers [...]

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Planned books:

Manifold: Time (Manifold) by Stephen Baxter

Current books:

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition) by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister