From 0037a193896c139520f6839702a3972c5a6ee2d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michel Blanc <mb@mbnet.fr>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:57:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Expands path on file operations

Path might have to be expanded on some operations. It seems that path
containing '~' are not.
Using os.path.expanduser in appropriate places solves the problem, but
this might be required in many other places.
---
 lib/ansible/module_common.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
index 51fb1f7499a..5d840bb60f7 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         return context
 
     def user_and_group(self, filename):
+        filename = os.path.expanduser(filename)
         st = os.stat(filename)
         uid = st.st_uid
         gid = st.st_gid
@@ -338,6 +339,8 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         return changed
 
     def set_mode_if_different(self, path, mode, changed):
+        path = os.path.expanduser(path)
+
         if mode is None:
             return changed
         try:

From 7d7e7fb8bc00f954b9f8e7bfccf2c914a05de650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michel Blanc <mb@mbnet.fr>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 13:41:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Adds path expansion to two other methods

set_owner_if_different and set_group_if_different seems to need path
expansion too
---
 lib/ansible/module_common.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
index 5d840bb60f7..f126f12f280 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         return changed
 
     def set_owner_if_different(self, path, owner, changed):
+        path = os.path.expanduser(path)
         if owner is None:
             return changed
         user, group = self.user_and_group(path)
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
         return changed
 
     def set_group_if_different(self, path, group, changed):
+        path = os.path.expanduser(path)
         if group is None:
             return changed
         old_user, old_group = self.user_and_group(path)
@@ -340,7 +342,6 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
 
     def set_mode_if_different(self, path, mode, changed):
         path = os.path.expanduser(path)
-
         if mode is None:
             return changed
         try: