From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen 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 01:17:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ims94p6p.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="147409"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Steinar Bang , 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 01:18:08 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 1hliKF-000cDI-8q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:18:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45838 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hliKD-0006Wt-LX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hliKB-0006Wl-I3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hliKA-0002Pk-Gk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hliKA-0002Pf-DR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hliKA-0000zU-6u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:18:02 +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=B36583.15628870503424 (code B ref 36583); Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36583) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jul 2019 23:17:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39040 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hliJd-0000st-Vp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:34306) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hliJb-0000qF-HF for 36583@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=stories) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hliJV-0008TB-AO; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:17:23 +0200 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEUAAAARERBqe23a3cdD RD9kjHiBnoprkH2U1xKmAAACRUlEQVQ4jXWTTVPbMBCGJSeTXmPwcAYno15jr0ZcbUe4ZzoVvjIY 1tcWaunvd1dKwDBTXSzvo333Qysh/rekbW5kmSv6xN99ewJr0DqDDmpd8R8ivm4T0LXeQF/Xtwc6 rzAEf51ARWBUVQePQmRkD+FPAkbr1YiHDBoh+imE2f16j7FSCWR9WACSWilD4FHIqDTfv4NLMPqJ gxNwwTVLUMd0FTs8NOcYMBY11JUWwlBw51MdsmzKTt7Y4npPGU5u8GPyEH1jmy62Q2xwGnCEw0mq ggNA3O9wQgRIHpnWcDC7BAANgklKWXVjqgTWAIaU9AkcZK3TqaMZWal6BzoBCYgeAOozoBKj1MZg IIdzjHVV3tbIYIU4hREAOasjt8TUJYN+8hj8COFZiCugjj79VpbdFU5TYK+wFW9UWFE0VrYRzC6w PdyLS0NTYu2+s5QUTm5+QAzO/aVEhMzj4gGZB+/5RtxrXrx8DFiGs2el2Tm37aYlIHmcPNldvr34 AN+Q1xQYFO3dB9iQ1fsQga/7r2AeGLw9Z5/ACwG2u/3YfQZJyD2MO7PM6pSrcyNcwgKk4hI4fgHJ 7nafAUmxldIazVJqfSpucAMq7m7X7SOQmKTCPJR4NHSwt8kFIxkoM6UpBt+HjS9VxdujcR/e9G4k D2VVFOuRb5bA61XVSfbobBRTLxSAPX7KFFS0cksHeBiIUHCXYrbSFragzQWDWEp8OdK2TVEWPA3f 5yVYF9smbxmIH24JaLDomze0uaMqliA/N8XNC/APbG3UyzDhz0AAAAAASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:58:40 -0400") 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:162744 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > FWIW, I find this behavior very surprising (and dangerous). Yes, me too. I can't think of any other program that behaves in this manner. > BTW, thinking about "dangerous" above, I guess the behavior might make > sense when you're `su`ing *from* root rather than the other way around. By default, /root on many systems isn't readable by anybody but root, so I don't think it makes much sense in any situation... I think Emacs shouldn't do this at all. When was this introduced, and what was the reasoning behind it? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no