Bug 827 – Allow selection of temporary directory for sudoedit

Bug 827 - Allow selection of temporary directory for sudoedit


Summary:	Allow selection of temporary directory for sudoedit

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.8.21
Hardware:	PC Linux

Importance:	low enhancement
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2018-03-29 07:52 MDT by Chiraag Nataraj
Modified:	2018-05-01 07:05 MDT (History)
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Description Chiraag Nataraj 2018-03-29 07:52:22 MDT

It would be useful to be able to set the temporary directory used by sudoedit (e.g. through a setting in sudoers). Namely, this came up in the context of sandboxing an application where /var/tmp read/write access was not given by default (a tmpfs was mounted there) and there was no option to change the temporary directory used by sudo to /tmp (where the application _does_ have access).

Sincerely,

Chiraag

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2018-04-04 20:27:53 MDT

sudoedit will choose /tmp if /var/tmp is missing but doesn't currently check for writability.  Adding an explicit access check should solve this without needing an extra configuration option.

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2018-04-05 08:57:22 MDT

I believe this should be addressed by https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/1e29ade3f4b2

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2018-05-01 07:05:25 MDT

sudo 1.8.23 checks for writability of the temp dir, not just existence.