From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow update-game-score to run sgid instead of suid. Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:33:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <21688.64785.754456.35609@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <21715.23580.816153.499778@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423146841 3643 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2015 14:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 15:34:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJNVI-0003nU-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:34:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJNVH-00042S-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:33:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJNV3-000429-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJNV0-0003Ka-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:33:45 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:38580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJNV0-0003KJ-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:33:42 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t15EXVmh025333; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 09:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C76BBFB3; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 09:33:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <21715.23580.816153.499778@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:03:40 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5208=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5208> : inlines <2034> : streams <1385189> : uri <1847080> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182448 Archived-At: > So, any objections against changing the default, as indicated above? I'm OK with changing to setgid instead of setuid, yes (I don't have a strong opinion either way on this). As for defaulting to "neither setuid nor setgid", I'm less convinced. After all, I'd expect that most cases where Emacs is built "by hand" (rather than installed from a distro), the build will be done by a non-privileged user, so it will already end up being neither setgid/setuid. IOW changing the default will end up catching distros by surprise with no real upside. Stefan