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Re: [Nano-devel] preventing a root-owned .nano dir
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Re: [Nano-devel] preventing a root-owned .nano dir |
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Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:44:34 -0600 |
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 20:40:57 +0200
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Anyway, the patch prevents the root user from steering
> through the HOME environment variable where nano will look
> for its .nanorc file and .nano/ history files. Would that
> be an acceptable small sacrifice? Chris? Others?
What about `sudo -u another_user nano`? I've seen many broken environments over
the years and having nano deal with it sounds like a good idea. But it would be
less hacky if it handled both cases, root and other users.