From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, 51327@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#51327: 28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on-demand
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 21:16:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835yryx5yf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4a55d5e-d96a-e418-bec9-e624a9cf1645@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 11:06:12 -0800)
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 11:06:12 -0800
> Cc: 51327@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> On 12/7/21 22:57, Jim Porter wrote:
> > Doing that by default opens a loophole for all emacsclient users, but
> > what about a command-line flag like `emacsclient
> > --allow-tmpdir-loophole' and/or an environment variable like
> > `EMACS_ALLOW_TMPDIR_LOOPHOLE=1 emacsclient' (with a better name, of
> > course)? Then, the default behavior would be free of loopholes[2], but
> > Ulrich's case could be achieved by passing that flag when calling
> > emacsclient. It might even be possible for Gentoo to enable that for the
> > user in the appropriate cases...
>
> Yes, I think something like this would be OK. The command-line flag
> would be easier to audit.
>
> Not sure whether a last-minute change like this should go into Emacs 28,
> though, even though it's security-relevant. Eli would be a better judge
> of that.
If it's a new command-line argument, and if the participants in this
discussion can live with it as the solution for this problem, I'm okay
with having it on emacs-28.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-08 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 4:58 bug#51327: 28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on-demand Jim Porter
2021-10-30 19:37 ` Jim Porter
2021-10-30 22:33 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-07 11:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-07 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-07 14:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-07 19:03 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-08 6:57 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-08 19:06 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-08 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-08 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-08 21:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-12-08 22:56 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-08 23:44 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-09 0:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-12-09 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 7:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-12-09 17:12 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-09 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 19:45 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-09 19:48 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-09 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 20:04 ` Paul Eggert
2022-09-10 5:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10 5:53 ` Paul Eggert via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-09 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-05 10:38 ` bug#51327: 28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on demand Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-05 17:54 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-05 18:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-05 18:38 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-05 19:02 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 13:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 17:06 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-12 2:21 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-07 14:58 ` Stefan Kangas
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