fix: keep the sudo password out of files written as root (0.2.1) #15

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Christian Manivong 707e048792 fix: keep the sudo password out of files written as root (0.2.1)
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run_command prepended the sudo password to the caller's stdin. A sudo
that does not prompt left it for the command, and fix_snmp's
'cat > snmpd.conf' wrote it as the configuration's first line before
making the file world-readable.

run_command now refuses stdin to a privileged command while a sudo
password is set. fix_snmp stages the configuration in a mktemp file
without privilege, and root installs it next to the target and renames
it over, so nothing root runs follows a symlink.

Closes #8
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