Attempts to write in user homedir even if running as root

[Jens Bech Madsen]

When I run 'sudo aptitude somthing something' I get this message:

E: /home/jbm/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13 Permission denied)

which is logical since my homedir is on an NFS partition on which my local root
user doesn't have write access.

Aptitude shouldn't be writing in my homedir when it's running with root privs.

[Jens Bech Madsen (jbmadsen)]

*** Bug 10536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I'll have a look tomorrow

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

aptitude will use the "HOME" enviroment to determine where to store it's
config-files. You can run "sudo -H aptitude something". This will modify HOME to
point to root's homedir. I changed the internal use of sudo in aptitude
accordingly and uploaded it as 0.2.16.8-1ubuntu4.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

fixed in the current hoary archive

[Kim Alvefur (zash)]

This bug seems to be reintroduced in current karmic.

After running sudo aptitude whatever, the permissions on $HOME/.aptitude/config is root:root, 640, so when I run aptitude without as me it can't read the file and uses default permissions and then creates a empty file there.