[bug #30470] GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT and GNUSTEP_PATHLIST set to wrong value

[Nicola Pero]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #30470 (project gnustep):


> And the current support is only for locations relative to the 
> user's home directory.

We actually have (or are supposed to have!) support for an absolute path for
user domain locations.  That means the user domain is no longer user-specific,
ie, it becomes yet another system-wide user domain.  It could be collapsed
with the local domain, for example, effectively disabling the user domain.  Or
it could be used as yet another system-wide user domain.

We clearly don't have the ability, to, say, have a user domain path in
/GS/{username}/Tools/.  If we do, we could follow the convention that OpenSSH
uses in sshd.conf for AuthorizedKeyFiles:

"The following tokens are defined: %% is replaced by a literal '%', %h is
replaced by the home directory of the user being authenticated and %u is
replaced by the username of that user." (from the sshd.conf manpage)

Clearly, we wouldn't follow it literally, eg, we wouldn't have %h which is
implicitly and automatically already added at the beginning if the path is
relative.  But we could use %% and %u.

That probably shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

Thanks

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