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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Cc: 32413@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32413: 25.2; When run as root, emacs writes dconf files in a non-root user's /run/user/XXX directory
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:28:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg9ewgla.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1oyy3fi.fsf@zira.vinc17.org> (Vincent Lefevre's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:30:09 +0200")

Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:

> Emacs should never create files/directories if the user hasn't
> explicitly asked it to do that, in particular if this is under
> a directory owned by a different user.

Does it help if you ./configure --without-gsettings?

(maybe it should default to off, I'm not sure what gsettings is actually
good for apart from causing bugs, e.g., #25228)






  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-10 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-10  9:30 bug#32413: 25.2; When run as root, emacs writes dconf files in a non-root user's /run/user/XXX directory Vincent Lefevre
2018-08-10 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 12:57   ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-08-10 13:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 14:32       ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-08-10 15:41         ` Glenn Morris
2018-08-10 15:53           ` Vincent Lefevre
2018-08-12 17:31             ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-12 22:03               ` Andreas Schwab
2018-08-12 23:45             ` Glenn Morris
2018-08-10 19:39           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 12:28 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-08-10 12:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-12 17:28     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-10 14:17   ` Vincent Lefevre

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