Re: sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Tramp is not magical: it can do no more nor less than what an attacker
>> could do.
> Sure, if the attacker has control over my keyboard, or over my display, or
> over the Lisp code that I load and execute.  That being said, Tramp does make
> attacks easier, so it has been an easy call for me to disable it.

I don't see in which way you think it makes attacks easier.
Are you thinking if things like file-local variables which may point
to a file like "/sudo:..."?

I'd expect that in most such cases such vars pointing to arbitrary files
would be a risk even without the sudo method, so I'd hope we'd plug
those quickly enough (and yes, the sudo method would make such attacks
worse, indeed).


        Stefan