From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Closing a privilege escalation
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:50:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh7hkmg1.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fBo4x-00027X-Ey@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 2018-04-26, at 23:05, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> to arrange to take advantage later. One way is by editing .emacs
> so that it will do something bad next time the user runs Emacs under sudo.
Out of curiosity: why would anyone run Emacs under sudo? Shouldn't it
be disabled? (Possibly, there might be option, called
e.g. --i-explicitly-do-ask-for-troubles, which could enable that.)
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 1:09 Closing a privilege escalation Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 1:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 1:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26 7:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 7:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 21:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26 21:26 ` Tim Cross
2018-04-27 15:57 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-27 9:50 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-04-27 14:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-25 15:25 ` Davis Herring
2018-04-25 16:47 ` Glenn Morris
2018-04-25 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-26 21:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 17:10 ` Søren Pilgård
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