Hi there, I've got an application which runs as root This application calls seteuid to execute part of its code as a lower priviledged user temporarily. after the seteuid call, the MySQLdb module is imported, which was installed with setuptools 0.6c6. then setuptools tries to play with root's .python-eggs directory instead of ~effective_user/.python-eggs/, because of the way os.path.expanduser() works (line 1039 in pkg_resource.py) is this a bug in setuptools, in Python, or more probably in my own application ? shouldn't Python's os.path.expanduser() call use the effective user id instead of the real one ? thanks in advance for any hint. bye Jerome Alet