From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32413: 25.2; When run as root, emacs writes dconf files in a non-root user's /run/user/XXX directory Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:17:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83600io1pl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k1oyy3fi.fsf@zira.vinc17.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1533903368 16587 195.159.176.226 (10 Aug 2018 12:16:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 32413@debbugs.gnu.org To: Vincent Lefevre Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 14:16:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6Ko-0004BL-LP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:16:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6Mu-0003kV-Sl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6Mo-0003kQ-Lf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6Mk-00062Y-Lg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6Mk-00062D-Hj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6Mk-0000AZ-Bj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32413 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 32413-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32413.1533903457613 (code B ref 32413); Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32413) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Aug 2018 12:17:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46408 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6MK-00009p-O6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45386) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6MJ-00009c-5K for 32413@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6MA-0005R2-2J for 32413@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6M9-0005Qv-Vc; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4182 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fo6M9-0003RK-Dn; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:17:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k1oyy3fi.fsf@zira.vinc17.org> (message from Vincent Lefevre on Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:30:09 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:149406 Archived-At: > From: Vincent Lefevre > Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:30:09 +0200 > > Emacs should never create files/directories if the user hasn't > explicitly asked it to do that I don't agree with this principle, not in this general form. (The "in a directory owned by another user" part, to which I think I agree, as written, was not a qualification for this general statement, so it doesn't count for the purposes of the principle itself.) As just one random example of what Emacs "should never do", we write the customizations to a file "without the user's explicit request".