Feature #12226: Dir.home with valid named user raises ArgumentError on Windows

• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[vais (Vais Salikhov)]

C:\>C:\Ruby\ruby-2.2.4-x64-mingw32\bin\ruby.exe -ve "p Dir.home; p Dir.home('Administrator')"
ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [x64-mingw32]
"C:/Users/Administrator"
-e:1:in `home': user Administrator doesn't exist (ArgumentError)
        from -e:1:in `<main>'

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Windows seems not providing the way to know another user's home path without authentication.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r54947.

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file.c: home dir fall back

• file.c (rb_home_dir_of): return the default home path if the user name is the current user name, on platforms where struct pwd is not supported. a temporary measure against [Bug #12226].

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Closed to Open