Bug 64103

Summary:	.bash_history and sudo
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Florin Andrei <florin>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
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Description Florin Andrei 2002-04-25 17:44:41 UTC

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Description of problem:
If i login as a regular user, the file .bash_history is created just fine, with
right ownership and permissions, etc.
But as soon as i "sudo bash", then .bash_history is created with root ownership.
If i exit back to the regular user, i don't have permissions to write to the
file anymore.
Bash should create .bash_history with the original user's ownership, no matter
if i sudo or not.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo bash
2. execute a few commands
3. exit back to regular user
	

Actual Results:  .bash_history has root:root ownership and is not readable as
regular user

Expected Results:  .bash_history should retain the ownership of the actual user
that's running the shell, no matter if bash is run via sudo or not

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-08-01 11:31:08 UTC

Not reproducable in the current release. 
 
[bero@zell bero]$ ls -l .bash_history 
-rw-------    1 bero     bero         6823 Aug  1 13:28 .bash_history 
[bero@zell bero]$ sudo bash 
[root@zell bero]# echo test 
test 
[root@zell bero]# exit 
exit 
[bero@zell bero]$ ls -l .bash_history 
-rw-------    1 bero     bero         6838 Aug  1 13:30 .bash_history 
[bero@zell bero]$