/* tildexpand.c Author: Tatu Ylonen Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen , Espoo, Finland All rights reserved Created: Wed Jul 12 01:07:36 1995 ylo */ #include "includes.h" RCSID("$Id: tildexpand.c,v 1.2 1999/09/30 16:48:48 deraadt Exp $"); #include "xmalloc.h" #include "ssh.h" /* Expands tildes in the file name. Returns data allocated by xmalloc. Warning: this calls getpw*. */ char *tilde_expand_filename(const char *filename, uid_t my_uid) { const char *cp; unsigned int userlen; char *expanded; struct passwd *pw; char user[100]; /* Return immediately if no tilde. */ if (filename[0] != '~') return xstrdup(filename); /* Skip the tilde. */ filename++; /* Find where the username ends. */ cp = strchr(filename, '/'); if (cp) userlen = cp - filename; /* Have something after username. */ else userlen = strlen(filename); /* Nothign after username. */ if (userlen == 0) pw = getpwuid(my_uid); /* Own home directory. */ else { /* Tilde refers to someone elses home directory. */ if (userlen > sizeof(user) - 1) fatal("User name after tilde too long."); memcpy(user, filename, userlen); user[userlen] = 0; pw = getpwnam(user); } /* Check that we found the user. */ if (!pw) fatal("Unknown user %100s.", user); /* If referring to someones home directory, return it now. */ if (!cp) { /* Only home directory specified */ return xstrdup(pw->pw_dir); } /* Build a path combining the specified directory and path. */ expanded = xmalloc(strlen(pw->pw_dir) + strlen(cp + 1) + 2); sprintf(expanded, "%s/%s", pw->pw_dir, cp + 1); return expanded; }