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: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:16 -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 1524844656 12645 195.159.176.226 (27 Apr 2018 15:57:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 27 17:57:32 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 1fC5kY-000374-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:57:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48864 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5mf-00015d-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5kV-0008Kg-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5kU-0002Lg-Pk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5kL-0002HM-9G; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fC5kK-0000mv-Np; Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:57:16 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tim Cross on Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:26:19 +1000) 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:224924 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. ]]] > On many systems, users with the 'admin' privilege > can run sudo to execute any command, including sudo su - root. Once you > have root, game over That's true -- but, as I explained in the previous message, that's not what this is about. -- 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.