proposed fix for issue 630; since m-a u operates on a saved copy of the users authori...

[monkeysphere.git] / src / monkeysphere

diff --git a/src/monkeysphere b/src/monkeysphere
index 8d59d08870727d99f07784241470d838c8d50f2f..1641d32ef47a15f6fe7a4660391a1d38f1a5b806 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/monkeysphere
+++ b/src/monkeysphere
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ export GNUPGHOME
 mkdir -p -m 0700 "$GNUPGHOME"
 export LOG_LEVEL
 
+# explicitly set the FILE_OWNER variable, for checking file permissions
+export FILE_OWNER=$(whoami)
+
 # get subcommand
 COMMAND="$1"
 [ "$COMMAND" ] || failure "Type '$PGRM help' for usage."