From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:07:36 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <200203051907.g25J7a901102@wijiji.santafe.edu> 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1015355764 5498 195.204.10.66 (5 Mar 2002 19:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Mar 2002 19:16:04 GMT Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, Pavel@Janik.cz, walters@verbum.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16iKPs-0001Qa-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 20:16:04 +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 16iKJE-00062f-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:09:12 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16iKHh-0005w3-00; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:07:37 -0500 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g25J7ju19265; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:07:45 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g25J7a901102; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:07:36 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-reply-to: <200203051520.g25FKbw01899@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) 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:1750 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1750 > The convention for /var/games is that it is writable for a special group > (game) only, and any program wanting to have access to it must be setgid > game. Emacs doesn't need to write in /var/games, it just needs to be able to write certain specific files that are somewhere under /var/games. Those files could be created by Emacs installation (which is run as root) and given modes that allow Emacs to update them. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel