According to a comment, certutil may create files in the current working directory. Rather than changing the cwd of the current process, FreeIPA's certutil wrapper now changes cwd for the subprocess only. See: https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/7416 Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <cheimes@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>