[Bug 58002] Re: Some programs create root-owned files in user $HOME when run under sudo

[Barin Montpris]

I know it's been a long time since the original bug was reported and the
last message was posted.  However, I am unable to reproduce this bug on
Ubuntu 20.04.2.  Perhaps that's because I already have everything
mentioned here as my own user.  If I rename ~/.vimrc and ~/.viminfo and
then run `sudo vi /etc/apt/source.list`, then a default .vimrc and
.viminfo are not created in my user directory.  I can also see that
there is still nothing in /etc/skel related to vim.

It has been 8 years and things do change.  I've only been using vim for
a couple of years, so it's quite possible that the ~/.vimrc isn't
created upon first running `vi` or `vim` anymore.

What should we do with this bug?

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Title:
  Some programs create root-owned files in user $HOME when run under
  sudo

Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The first time I noticed this I thought I'd done something wrong.  But
  5 installations later, my .viminfo is always owned by root, causing
  certain things to malfunction or not function at all.  For example I
  can't copy and paste text (vim-style) from one file to another, and
  despite my .vimrc magic my cursor is always on line 1, column 1 when I
  open a file.

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