* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051002 05:57]: > > - The password database is used instead of $HOME to determine where > > aptitude's configuration file goes, so people using sudo don't end up > > with root-owned mode 0700 files in their home directory. > > (Closes: #272429, #274216, #285334, #272409) > > Well, aptitude and debconf both it seems. Which suggests to me this is a > larger problem. Also note that I got just as many bugs reports after I > made debconf do this as I was able to close by doing it. :-/
This is not really a larger problem, but just a problem in sudo. Using getpwuid to get the home-directory is compareable to hard-coding /root. (Hardcoding /root is even a bit cleaner, as it might not lure people into using it when not working around bugs in sudo). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
