From: Al Petrofsky <al@petrofsky.org>
Cc: Pavel@Janik.cz, walters@verbum.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:36:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203032036.MAA29961@radish.petrofsky.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203031718.g23HIKt23295@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu)
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
> > From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
> >
> > How do you share high-scores between users then? We do want to share
> > scores...
>
> It's difficult to do it safely.
Is this sufficient?
(let* ((scores-dir (expand-file-name "emacs-games-scores"
temporary-file-directory))
(scores-basename "snake-scores")
(scores-file (expand-file-name scores-basename scores-dir))
(temp (make-temp-file scores-basename)))
(unwind-protect
(progn
(write-region (point-min) (point-max) temp)
(set-file-modes temp #o444)
(condition-case nil
(progn
(make-directory scores-dir)
(set-file-modes scores-dir #o777))
(error nil))
(and (eq t (car (file-attributes scores-dir)))
(rename-file temp scores-file t)))
(condition-case nil
(delete-file temp)
(error nil))))
You might unwittingly overwrite the file named "snake-scores" in some
unknown directory if someone maliciously creates a /tmp/snake symlink
at just the right time, but that's not too bad. (Maybe we should use
"/tmp/emacs-game-scores/this-file-name-is-not-used-for-any-important\
-file-in-any-directory-I-hope".)
> But in any case sharing should not be done via /tmp.
> We should instead define a `score-files-directory' which could default
> to "/var/games" or to "~/.emacs.d".
An advantage of using /tmp is that it exists on every (sane) system,
and does not require any help from the system administrator.
-al
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-03 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-01 1:15 many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Colin Walters
2002-03-02 11:52 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-02 21:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-02 23:13 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-03 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-03 20:36 ` Al Petrofsky [this message]
2002-03-04 0:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-04 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 2:26 ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-05 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:57 ` Al Petrofsky
2002-03-05 21:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-05 4:30 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-05 10:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-03-05 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-05 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-06 4:40 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-06 7:35 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-06 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-07 2:40 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-07 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-08 9:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08 9:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-10 10:46 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-11 9:01 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-17 22:08 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-18 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-18 22:36 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-18 23:49 ` Steve Kemp
2002-03-19 0:31 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-19 6:22 ` Pavel Janík
2002-03-20 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-27 23:46 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-31 1:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 7:30 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-05 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-06 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-06 19:05 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-08 9:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-08 18:52 ` Colin Walters
2002-03-09 10:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-03 14:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 4:08 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-04 4:50 ` Colin Walters
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