From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .emacs-settings.el Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:29 +0200 Message-ID: <85odgf6j0a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <60282.128.165.123.18.1189002441.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87k5r350o5.fsf@jurta.org> <85y7fj80er.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <46E0F8B3.9020702@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189149540 17098 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 07:19:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 09:19:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITY7G-0004Gr-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITY7E-0006T8-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITY7A-0006S5-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITY78-0006QW-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITY78-0006QN-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITY72-0008D8-IK; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.46]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITY71-0006ch-Vm; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA57431E9CF; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9999413F2C4; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-044-151.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.44.151]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E21376449; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9B3D31CAD71B; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 09:18:29 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <46E0F8B3.9020702@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Fri\, 07 Sep 2007 08\:07\:31 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4175/Thu Sep 6 22:16:54 2007 on mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78104 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> I strongly disagree. The file won't be there without the user having >> taken some action to put it there > > s/the user/a user/ > > On multi-user systems this could be a security risk, so it should be > disabled by default. If we think it a security risk, we can ignore such files unless written by the current user. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum