Is using /root/.pylintrc (if pylint is run as root) unexpected "magic"?
Most other tools, that I know of, will read in configuration files for root
(including any likely editor).

I'm happy to provide a patch either for "comment" or "fix", depending on
consensus. My gut reaction is we should remove this special case handling
for root.

-Alex


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Sylvain Thénault <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05 avril 12:18, Jürgen Hermann wrote:
> > Hi, very likely for the same reason root has no ~/bin by default, with
> the implied goal of reducing "magic" injections into root's environment
> (and thus reduce any possible attack vectors for code injection or similar
> surprises).
> >
> > In human terms "if root decided to be in a project dir with a local
> .pylintrc, provide that, but don't inject a global one just anywhere".
>
> Right. In which case a patch adding a comment and explaining this
> in the doc would probably be better.
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