From 5703540c0ff8923681cb35ffb2c64f41d7134f04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@maxsi.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 00:30:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Start the initial root shell in root's home directory.

---
 utils/init.cpp | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/init.cpp b/utils/init.cpp
index 5105da87..c0dc5847 100644
--- a/utils/init.cpp
+++ b/utils/init.cpp
@@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ int child()
 	tcsetpgrp(0, getpid());
 
 	const char* default_shell = "sh";
+	const char* default_home = "/root";
 	const char* shell;
+	const char* home;
 	if ( struct passwd* passwd = getpwuid(getuid()) )
 	{
 		setenv("USERNAME", passwd->pw_name, 1);
-		setenv("HOME", passwd->pw_dir, 1);
+		home = passwd->pw_dir[0] ? passwd->pw_dir : default_home;
+		setenv("HOME", default_home, 1);
 		shell = passwd->pw_shell[0] ? passwd->pw_shell : default_shell;
 		setenv("SHELL", shell, 1);
 		setenv("DEFAULT_STUFF", "NO", 1);
@@ -194,11 +197,13 @@ int child()
 	else
 	{
 		setenv("USERNAME", "root", 1);
-		setenv("HOME", "/root", 1);
+		setenv("HOME", home = default_home, 1);
 		setenv("SHELL", shell = default_shell, 1);
 		setenv("DEFAULT_STUFF", "YES", 1);
 	}
 
+	chdir(home);
+
 	const char* newargv[] = { shell, NULL };
 
 	execvp(shell, (char* const*) newargv);