Comment 0 for bug 16700

Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.7p5-2
Severity: minor

visudo creates and uses /etc/visudo.tmp. While this may or may not
be subject to race conditions, a temporary file certainly does not
belong into /etc. Please use /tmp or $TMPDIR instead.

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-cirrus
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l

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