cannot create temp file for here-document: No such file or directory about linux-exploit-suggester HOT 6 CLOSED

Script uses standard TMPDIR, it is not writable by account you are using. You need to find a writable path and change/create the
TMPDIR environmental variable.

find a writable path:
find . -writable

Change TMPDIR environmental variable to this path:
export TMPDIR=/new/writbl/path

runscript

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Don't you think it's more intuitive & natural to work in the current directory?
Even if working in tmpdir is more "stealth" and has more chance to work.

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@noraj, LES is using heredocs all over the places. Herdocs in Bash (and most other shells) are implemented through creation of temporary files in /tmp. So if your /tmp is not writable then IMO there's no easy workaround for this.

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So I should do TMPDIR=$(pwd) bash les.sh instead?

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Not sure if it works - try it. Also you can grab the output of uname -a command on your target and then run LES on your other machine: les.sh --uname <uname-string>. This is not ideal (as it does not conduct some additional checks) but it's better than nothing.

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I don't have access to this machine anymore, let's close this.

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