Bug#337815: coreutils: when using sudo, rm fails if cwd is not readable

Thanks for the report. FYI, this has been fixed upstream since 5.3.0. The latest stable release is just hours old, here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.93.tar.bz2 Wolf Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When rm is called usi

Bug#337815: coreutils: when using sudo, rm fails if cwd is not readable

Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2.1 Severity: normal When rm is called using sudo and the current working directory is not readable to root, rm fails: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo rm -r /usr/doc rm: cannot get current directory: Permission denied In this case, $HOME is imported via NFS using the