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Fix sudo password and RPC token handling in managed modal

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2 open items. Fix merged in #124262 on 26 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These items address two security and correctness issues: sudo passwords being incorrectly piped rather than sent via stdinData, and RPC tokens leaking into remote process arguments while kernel directories lack access controls.

Open issues1

  • Issue#126389[Bug]: managed Modal pipes the sudo password into the first pipeline only (sudo after && fails, caller stdin dropped)

Open PRs1

  • PR#126390fix(managed-modal): send the sudo password in stdinData, not a pipe into the first pipeline (salvage #122440)

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  • #124262 fix(code-execution): keep the RPC token out of remote argv and lock down kernel dirs

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/_child_env_fixtures.py, tests/tools/test_code_execution.py, tests/tools/test_code_execution_file_rpc.py, tests/tools/test_code_kernel_remote.py, tests/tools/test_tool_result_storage.py, tools/code_execution_rpc.py, tools/code_execution_tool.py, tools/code_kernel_remote.py, tools/environments/base_session_env.py, tools/tool_result_storage.py

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