From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
"João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:06:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t1n2yll.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <888b347f-80f3-dbc2-9e88-74be3375b599@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:25:47 -0800")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 11/20/18 1:18 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Tramp is not magical: it can do no more nor less than what an attacker
>> could do.
>
> Sure, if the attacker has control over my keyboard, or over my
> display, or over the Lisp code that I load and execute. That being
> said, Tramp does make attacks easier, so it has been an easy call for
> me to disable it.
Tramp's sudo method needs your credentials. If you don't provide them,
Tramp cannot do anything.
Like calling sudo in a terminal.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 22:06 UTC|newest]
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2018-11-20 14:13 ` sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue João Távora
2018-11-20 21:14 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-20 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-20 21:25 ` Paul Eggert
2018-11-20 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-20 22:06 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2018-11-20 22:27 ` João Távora
2018-11-20 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-21 7:41 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-21 12:26 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-21 12:44 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-11-21 12:51 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-21 14:44 ` John Shahid
2018-11-21 14:52 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-21 14:55 ` John Shahid
2018-11-21 15:07 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-20 22:16 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-20 22:30 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-20 22:54 ` João Távora
2018-11-21 7:49 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <87ftvwyxh7.fsf@gmx.de>
2018-12-16 15:24 ` Tramp sudoedit method (was: sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue) Michael Albinus
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