Comment 13 for bug 1471459
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| Benno Schulenberg (bennoschulenberg) wrote | #13 |
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This has been addressed in nano's SVN, r5580. In version 2.5.2 and higher, nano will ignore $HOME when it is effectively running as root, and will therefore not create or change anything in the home directory of the user that invokes nano through a plain sudo.
(It also means that it will not use the normal user's .nanorc, but only the global /etc/nanorc plus the .nanorc file in /root. Which is kind of nice, because you can then give a root-privileged nano another appearance from that of a normal user, by using for example 'set titlecolor brightwhite,red'.)