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[Benno Schulenberg <benno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been addressed in nano's SVN, r5580.  In version 2.5.2 and
higher, nano will ignore $HOME when it is effectively running as root,
and will therefore not create or change anything in the home directory
of the user that invokes nano through a plain sudo.

(It also means that it will not use the normal user's .nanorc, but only
the global /etc/nanorc plus the .nanorc file in /root.  Which is kind of
nice, because you can then give a root-privileged nano another
appearance from that of a normal user, by using for example 'set
titlecolor brightwhite,red'.)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471459

Title:
  First run of nano  creates a  directory in $HOME, if run as sudo will
  be root owned

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in nano package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If nano is started for the first with sudo then a root owned directory named .nano is created in the user's $HOME directory.
  If 1st. started as a user then the user owns .nano & ownership will not be altered by subsequent use of sudo nano.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: nano 2.4.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-22.22-generic 3.19.8-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.3-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jul  4 20:06:16 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-25 (128 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150224)
  SourcePackage: nano
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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