From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33847: 27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:42:39 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <8a6fc59c-08b3-e274-4fb1-74674c79540a@cs.ucla.edu> <9ebcad22-2cdb-46fb-4be9-efc4ad234b6d@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1545928871 11667 195.159.176.226 (27 Dec 2018 16:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:41:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, 33847@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 27 17:41:06 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 1gcYiY-0002x8-Jx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkf-0001Cs-D6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkT-0001CY-3S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkP-0001eK-VP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkP-0001dq-Rw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:43:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkP-0004zs-Ob for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:43:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33847 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33847-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33847.154592896919191 (code B ref 33847); Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33847) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Dec 2018 16:42:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39484 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkD-0004zT-CV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:36910) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gcYkB-0004zH-4v for 33847@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:42:47 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9800160922; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id z4aIm849zNcG; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B875160D0F; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id AgsROTnKsAWi; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 146CA16059D; Thu, 27 Dec 2018 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US 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:153911 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Is it possible to arrange for each user to have a directory under /run/emacs > which is owned by that user and doesn't give access to anyone else? > > Maybe we could release a simple setuid program to create that directory. Although I think that would work, as Ulrich wrote in Bug#33847#26 it has an operational problem: it requires the creation and installation of either a setuid program (which will raise eyebrows) or the creation of a new 'emacs' group and installation of a setgid 'emacs' program (which will raise fewer eyebrows but is still a hassle). Adding either requirement would be a hassle for builders and installers (e.g., how do you test the new Emacs before installing it if you don't have rights to create a setuid program in the build directory?). So we are looking for a better solution if possible.