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diff --git a/ptyas.c b/ptyas.c
index 71ac027..e6ecd55 100644
--- a/ptyas.c
+++ b/ptyas.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static void drop_privileges_or_die(uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
         die("setgroups");
     }
     if (getgroups(0, NULL) != 0) {
-        die_fmt("failed to drop all groups");
+        die_fmt("failed to drop all supplementary groups");
     }
 
     /* Dropping groups may require privileges, do that first. */
@@ -217,14 +217,15 @@ static void proxy_input_between_ttys(int pty_master, int ctty, volatile pid_t *p
         if (ppoll(fds, nfds, NULL /* no timeout */, &sigset_old) == -1) {
             if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR) {
                 continue;
-            } else {
-                perror("poll");
             }
+            perror("poll");
             break;
         }
 
-        /* Handle errors first. (Data available before the error occurred
-         * might be skipped, but shouldn't matter here.) */
+        /*
+         * Handle errors first. (Data available before the error occurred
+         * might be dropped, but shouldn't matter here.)
+         */
         if (fds[0].revents & (POLLERR | POLLNVAL)) {
             fprintf(stderr, "poll: error on master: %d\n", fds[0].revents);
             break;
@@ -360,6 +361,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         if (pid == -1) {
             die("fork child");
         } else if (pid == 0) {
+            /*
+             * Drop the privileges just now so that the other user doesn't get
+             * access to the master TTY or the session leader (which might
+             * have additional privileges).
+             */
             drop_privileges_or_die(uid, gid);
 
             dup2_or_die(pty_slave, STDIN_FILENO);
@@ -374,6 +380,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
             }
             const char *home = passwd->pw_dir;
 
+            /*
+             * Ignore errors here as we don't want to die on non-existent home
+             * directories to allow running as any user (think "/nonexistent"
+             * as home) and an error message will be annoying to ignore when
+             * running this command in scripts.
+             */
+            chdir(home);
+
             char envp_user[strlen("USER=") + strlen(user) + 1];
             char envp_home[strlen("HOME=") + strlen(home) + 1];
             char envp_term[strlen("TERM=") + strlen(term) + 1];
@@ -442,8 +456,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
         die("tcsetattr restore");
     }
 
-    /* Wait until we got the status code from our child. poll() might also
-     * exit after POLLHUP while we haven't collected the child yet. */
+    /*
+     * Wait until we got the status code from our child. poll() might already
+     * exit after POLLHUP while we haven't collected the child yet.
+     */
     if (sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &sigset, &sigset_old) != 0) {
         die("sigprocmask block sigchld loop");
     }