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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Dor Azouri <dor.azouri@safebreach.com>
Cc: 28618@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28618: Emacs Security Issue
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:03:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r2tvzo6mtw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7qh8vohx5y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:24:41 -0400")


PS If your concern is about a user account that can only run "sudo
emacs", firstly that seems a bit unlikely, and secondly Emacs is a
big, complicated program that can eg spawn a bash shell. So it should
not be used in a sudo environment where you want to have tight control
over what the sudoer can run.

BTW, if user foo runs "sudo emacs", it consults /root/.emacs, not ~foo/.emacs.
So I don't understand your specific concern with the init file.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-27 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-27 13:56 bug#28618: Emacs Security Issue Dor Azouri
2017-09-27 15:44 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-27 16:02   ` Dor Azouri
2017-09-27 16:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-27 17:24 ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-27 18:03   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-09-28 11:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-29 12:57   ` Dor Azouri
2017-09-29 13:24     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-29 16:41       ` Glenn Morris
2017-09-29 22:55         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-10-01 15:27           ` Dor Azouri
2017-10-06  2:23             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-17  1:43               ` Noam Postavsky

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