From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:32:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19583.19642.954872.847808@bugle.cse.ucsc.edu> <19583.53728.357608.629758@bugle.cse.ucsc.edu> <4mzkvs44no.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83zkvl50ly.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284392441 3456 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2010 15:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: markd@soe.ucsc.edu, 6953@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 13 17:40:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvB93-0007aK-HA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sv4ejDKgRzjoKohWOm/pom7WDLyu5khY1Gj7Oc91chwvvWPwUyHoawRU6ieQaqdBHw wpxB3nluS04za9P1q0O+TeH59i1/Q8fjX8O9wwR3HZZLtELJrzpshuGOC+dRKO4+GTPr 58DztKobZVae8+cpOhshAyblkerPjnhqfnYyw= Original-Received: by 10.229.247.3 with SMTP id ma3mr3478158qcb.1.1284391994231; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.20.68 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:32:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83zkvl50ly.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:32:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:40134 Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> On the other hand, simply creating a mode 700 directory does not >> necessarily make it private, you have to use AFS commands to set ACLs. >> But the approach of having backup files in a special directory would >> be closer to how AFS normally works. > > The situation on MS-Windows is almost exactly the same. =C2=A0Files put i= n > private directories are private by default, but creating a new private > directory requires using Windows-specific ACL APIs. > > Maybe it's time to have this functionality in Emacs. Yes, please.