From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Hood Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system Date: 06 Aug 2008 16:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: <626685cb-27d2-4a29-93a9-71079e51d715@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <85bq0cmtnn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218075430 29543 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 02:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:17:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 04:18:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQv4h-0000sl-KS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:17:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQv3m-0006Dt-1k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:17:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:42:39 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.66.151 Original-X-Trace: sv3-uLcUiztzbW3fF+dMIp1mpycNuPIBiM0gRq5c3vYvUedFpaodZi3uh1zXQgSMeoko4ceA0p0rXljrIim!oFnOoyFdovmIXC0sIHYCe16VW2h3v/GaeI9EQeG9+kd/kLBdv8gbifiXL3K2qU0L2+l2n/lwwjMk!n0pLaD06C37O X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160875 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:16:44 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56223 Archived-At: iainb.forms@googlemail.com writes: > Got rid of the setuid, thanks. I'm not sure why the 21.2 emacs is so > small or the suid was there, so I checked on another Tiger machine. I > can't be entirely sure emacs wasn't there from 10.3 (Panther), can't > remember. If it's a virus, it still worked as emacs :) As another poster has noted, the suid bit was set by the broken "Repair Disk Permissions" function of the Disk Utility in some builds of OSX 10.4. It's definitely a security risk that has supposedly been fixed in some more recent update. (I haven't tested it myself yet). The Emacs is small because it's just a compiled launcher for the real Emacs that provides a terminal window for Emacs to run in if the launcher was invoked without a terminal. The 21.2 version built into OSX 10.4 isn't compiled with window system support. -- Mark