From c918e6583b2da5f420182dba145571a34dff907f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamie Cameron <jcameron@webmin.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 11:12:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Only fall back to writing to the dest file directly in the
 case of a permission denied when running as root, as root should already have
 access to all files

---
 web-lib-funcs.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/web-lib-funcs.pl b/web-lib-funcs.pl
index 11f7bfc72..0364dee36 100755
--- a/web-lib-funcs.pl
+++ b/web-lib-funcs.pl
@@ -10674,7 +10674,7 @@ else {
 		my $directopen = 0;
 		my $tmp = &open_tempfile($file);
 		my $ex = open($fh, ">$tmp");
-		if (!$ex && $! =~ /permission/i) {
+		if (!$ex && $! =~ /permission/i && $< != 0) {
 			# Could not open temp file .. try opening actual file
 			# instead directly
 			$ex = open($fh, ">$file");