From c6e5b6719785943e2225cae1cc70db61dfb57ede Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:22:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Doug Porter's patch that changes the order of preferences on
 how to find the default netrc file. We now read and uses HOME _before_ we use
 getpwuid() to better allow users to move around HOME to use different .netrc
 files without having to rely on even blacker magic.

---
 lib/netrc.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/netrc.c b/lib/netrc.c
index 059ccdabc..c43fc9fe1 100644
--- a/lib/netrc.c
+++ b/lib/netrc.c
@@ -111,24 +111,26 @@ int Curl_parsenetrc(char *host,
   }
 #endif /* CURLDEBUG */
   if(!netrcfile) {
-#if defined(HAVE_GETPWUID) && defined(HAVE_GETEUID)
-    struct passwd *pw;
-    pw= getpwuid(geteuid());
-    if (pw) {
-#ifdef	VMS
-      home = decc$translate_vms(pw->pw_dir);
-#else
-      home = pw->pw_dir;
-#endif
-    }
-#endif
-  
-    if(!home) {
-      home = curl_getenv("HOME"); /* portable environment reader */
-      if(!home)
-        return -1;
+    home = curl_getenv("HOME"); /* portable environment reader */
+    if(home) {
       home_alloc = TRUE;
+#if defined(HAVE_GETPWUID) && defined(HAVE_GETEUID)
     }
+    else {
+      struct passwd *pw;
+      pw= getpwuid(geteuid());
+      if (pw) {
+#ifdef	VMS
+        home = decc$translate_vms(pw->pw_dir);
+#else
+        home = pw->pw_dir;
+#endif
+      }
+#endif
+    }
+
+    if(!home)
+      return -1;
 
     netrcfile = curl_maprintf("%s%s%s", home, DIR_CHAR, NETRC);
     if(!netrcfile) {