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  1. Bug #58002
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 58002

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: vim should populate skel/.viminfo so ownership is not affected by initial sudo

Adding files to /etc/skel is pretty gross, and recommended against by policy for good reasons. Code changes to avoid the file being owned by root when being invoked by sudo would be better, even though those would be fairly hackish too.