From ef5ce7e66c26af2405ea7f0e1da282b99f7cb450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:22:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for an Issue #670

---
 lib/core/target.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/target.py b/lib/core/target.py
index 00bfeaab2..c1c007f1c 100644
--- a/lib/core/target.py
+++ b/lib/core/target.py
@@ -462,7 +462,16 @@ def _createFilesDir():
     conf.filePath = paths.SQLMAP_FILES_PATH % conf.hostname
 
     if not os.path.isdir(conf.filePath):
-        os.makedirs(conf.filePath, 0755)
+        try:
+            os.makedirs(conf.filePath, 0755)
+        except OSError, ex:
+            tempDir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="sqlmapfiles")
+            warnMsg = "unable to create files directory "
+            warnMsg += "'%s' (%s). " % (conf.filePath, ex)
+            warnMsg += "Using temporary directory '%s' instead" % tempDir
+            logger.warn(warnMsg)
+
+            conf.filePath = tempDir
 
 def _createDumpDir():
     """