So it opens the file in your editor, since you have read access to it. Then saves your changes to a temp file. Then when you close the editor it does a sudo mv tmpfile readfile?
I checked this by checking the file ownership when running touch myself. The file is owned by root. sudo nano myself also creates a file owned by root. sudoedit myself bitches at me not to run it in a writable directory.
sudoedit: myself: editing files in a writable directory is not permitted
So I ran it in a non-writable directory and the resulting file is still owned by root.
So is the advantage of sudoedit preventing a possible escalation of privileges situation?
So it opens the file in your editor, since you have read access to it. Then saves your changes to a temp file. Then when you close the editor it does a sudo mv tmpfile readfile?
I checked this by checking the file ownership when running
touch myself. The file is owned by root.sudo nano myselfalso creates a file owned by root.sudoedit myselfbitches at me not to run it in a writable directory.So I ran it in a non-writable directory and the resulting file is still owned by root.
So is the advantage of
sudoeditpreventing a possible escalation of privileges situation?Yes, and it also lets me use my neovim config.