From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unsafe file variables...
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 02:36:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BANiv-0006U8-LQ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y8pbh5lk.fsf-monnier+emacs@alfajor.local> (message from Stefan Monnier on 04 Apr 2004 16:11:41 -0400)
I think that using authentication for such problems is the wrong approach.
We should check the safety of the code instead.
There is a package whose job is to check an expression for safety.
I installed it last year, but I don't recall the file name.
Of course, it is conservative--there are many programs which are
safe, but it can't tell, so it says "no". That being so, I am not
sure whether this approach will do a good job in practice.
But a good solution was proposed
a while back here: add a customization variable that allows the user to
specify a list of safe code which he's willing to eval in the future.
Perhaps the two features can be combined.
That package could treat anything it finds in that list as "safe".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-05 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-03 19:06 Unsafe file variables David Kastrup
2004-04-04 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-04 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-04 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-04 20:28 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-04 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-05 2:14 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-05 3:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-05 10:34 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-05 6:36 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-04-05 11:56 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-05 12:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-07 0:09 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-07 17:37 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-05 0:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-05 2:25 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-05 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-05 12:08 ` Kim F. Storm
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