Re: ensure safe directory failing

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:44:33 -0500
>> From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
>>
>>> Are you logged in as Administrator on that machine?
>> Essentially yes. No password to logon. Up until ver. 23 (server-start)
>> in .emacs worked with HOME=C:\emacs (i.e. everything at same level as
>> emacs/bin). Under DocumentsandSettings the owners of all the folders
>> seem to be Administrators, User, System and with all permissions
>> checked.  The owner under c:\emacs was always Everyone and all
>> permissions were checked.
>> I read the entire thread at
>> http://osdir.com/ml/help-emacs-windows-gnu/2011-03/
>> on this topic but I can't seem to make .emacs.d directory safe with any
>> combo of users and/or permissions. This is on a desktop with win2000. On
>> a laptop with xp and with home=c:\emacs it does work but all I see there
>> is that the directory is read only (i.e. right click properties or
>> Alt-Enter doesn't reveal anything about ownership).
> 
> Can you try the patch to server.el below?
> 
> --- lisp/server.el	2011-01-02 23:50:46 +0000
> +++ lisp/server.el	2011-03-11 12:19:08 +0000
> @@ -474,7 +474,13 @@ See variable `server-auth-dir' for detai
>  			      (file-name-as-directory dir))
>  		      :warning)
>  		     (throw :safe t))
> -		   (unless (eql uid (user-uid)) ; is the dir ours?
> +		   (unless (or (= uid (user-uid)) ; is the dir ours?
> +			       (and w32
> +				    ;; Files created on Windows by
> +				    ;; Administrator (RID=500) have
> +				    ;; the Administrators (RID=544)
> +				    ;; group recorded as the owner.
> +				    (= uid 544) (= (user-uid) 500)))
>  		     (throw :safe nil))
>  		   (when w32                    ; on NTFS?
>  		     (throw :safe t))
> 
> 

I think so. I don't have or don't understand the source code maintenance
tools but if I just delete lines 474-477 and add those starting with:
(unless (or (= uid (user-uid)) ; is the dir ours?
it should accomplish the same thing. I'll save the old server.el and
.elc and byte-compile the new one.

Thanks; I'll report back later.