Comment 4 for bug 16700

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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:38:46 +0100
From: martin f krafft <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: visudo: please use /tmp or other location for temporary file

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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=3Den_GB, LC_CTYPE=3Den_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=3DUTF-8)

Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared librarie=
s an
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modul=
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ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modul=
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