[Bug 238120] cron(8) doesn't set the HOME environment variable to users's home directory when command runs under regular user

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238120

--- Comment #2 from Yuri Victorovich <yuri at freebsd.org> ---
On 12.0-STABLE r347548 GENERIC  amd64

Add this line to /etc/crontab:
> *     *       *       *       *         yuri     /home/yuri/cron-env-test.sh


/home/yuri/cron-env-test.sh contains:
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "`date`: "$HOME >> /tmp/cron-env-test.txt

It printed into /tmp/cron-env-test.txt:
> Fri Jun 21 02:18:00 PDT 2019: /var/log

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