From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:53:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83d0if2tj3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ims94p6p.fsf@dod.no> <83wogn3ghs.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="97733"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: sb@dod.no, 36583@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 12 16:55:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwx4-000PJ1-1R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:55:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50264 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwx2-0006Mh-RO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwwz-0006AU-Og for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwwx-0003xJ-QS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwwx-0003we-M5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwww-0002Ce-CG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:55:03 -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, 12 Jul 2019 14:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36583 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 36583-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36583.15629432648416 (code B ref 36583); Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jul 2019 14:54:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40511 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwwJ-0002Bf-IF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39089) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwwH-0002BT-JZ for 36583@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlwwB-0002JL-KM; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1640 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hlww7-0000e9-Kt; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:54:12 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:46:13 -0400) 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: 209.51.188.43 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:162778 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: rgm@gnu.org, sb@dod.no, 36583@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:46:13 -0400 > > >> > This is explicitly documented in the manual. > >> > "How Emacs Finds Your Init File". > >> FWIW, I find this behavior very surprising (and dangerous). > > Why is it dangerous? > > Because it'll run with full admin privileges the user's ~/.emacs which > was likely not written under the assumption that you have to be very > careful not to mess up the whole system. Isn't that what 'su' is supposed to allow?