From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Walters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: 05 Mar 2002 23:40:17 -0500 Message-ID: <1015389617.25883.37.camel@space-ghost> References: <1014945351.23435.102.camel@space-ghost> <1015103550.7365.17.camel@space-ghost> <200203031718.g23HIKt23295@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200203042340.g24NexL00497@aztec.santafe.edu> <200203051520.g25FKbw01899@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015390715 29855 195.204.10.66 (6 Mar 2002 04:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 04:58:35 GMT Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16iTVb-0007lR-00 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 05:58:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16iTOR-0005EW-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: from monk.debian.net ([216.185.54.61] helo=monk.verbum.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16iTO4-0005DE-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:50:48 -0500 Original-Received: from space-ghost.verbum.private (dhcp024-208-188-193.columbus.rr.com [24.208.188.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "space-ghost.verbum.org", Issuer "monk.verbum.org" (verified OK)) by monk.verbum.org (Postfix (Debian/GNU)) with ESMTP id 1FF4774000B9 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:50:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by space-ghost.verbum.private (Postfix (Debian/GNU), from userid 1000) id 25CB1806BD9; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 23:40:18 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200203051520.g25FKbw01899@rum.cs.yale.edu> X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1757 [ We're all on the list, so I'll drop the CCs ] On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:20, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Which is not an option for Emacs. I'd much rather have something like > /var/games/emacs-scores owned by root and only writable by root > with a file /var/games/emacs-scores/snake that's world-writable. Well, for the Debian packaged version of Emacs, I think we will set it up so emacs is setgid games, and writes to /var/games/emacs or so. I almost have a patch ready for this. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel