From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Closing a privilege escalation Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524695924 18947 195.159.176.226 (25 Apr 2018 22:38:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:38:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 26 00:38:40 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fBT3f-0004r9-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBT5m-0008NG-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBT5b-0008Lt-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBT5a-0007n3-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBT5Z-0007lm-3q; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fBT5Y-00035E-Mw; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:36 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:18:31 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224890 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Can you explain what you mean by "sudo-authorized users" exactly? It means, users that are allowed to use sudo. > When running Emacs as root, require .emacs (etc) to be writable only by root. That is a slightly stricter criterion than the one I proposed, which was owned by root. The slightly stricter criterion might be a little better. But it is basically the same thing. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.