From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rabite@posteo.de, 41628@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41628: [PATCH] Allow emacsclient to connect to other user's socket when using -s
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 19:32:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgd1hubt.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835zcckt1p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 31 May 2020 18:44:50 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Since commit 5c0d8bb95bbd5354e6b2cd2e56a91afe4e780759 emacsclient won't
>> connect to my usual emacs session when run as root. I use this all the
>> time to edit files, combined with "-T /sudo:root@localhost" to handle
>> permissions. Using a separate emacs process would be unpractical as it
>> would require setting up a whole new emacs configuration and keeping it
>> in sync with my main one. I think this is a common use-case for those
>> who have an emacs-server running all the time and supporting it makes a
>> lot of sense. In principle I see no reason emacsclient should refuse a
>> connection that is possible in theory.
>>
>> It looks like this "feature" has been explicitly disabled, maybe because
>> it might triggered unintentionally if running su doesn't set USER or
>> something?
>
> The discussion which led to that change is here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-11/msg00019.html
So unless I understand something here, this is not something we want to
allow (because of security concerns), so I'm closing this bug report.
--
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2020-05-31 13:51 bug#41628: [PATCH] Allow emacsclient to connect to other user's socket when using -s rabite
2020-05-31 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-05 17:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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