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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Closing a privilege escalation
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:20:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3muxqcu23.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fBT5b-00035k-Nb@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:40:39 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> The discussion reached the conclusion that the problem is real, even
> with recent GNU/Linux systems.  We have not fixed it.

I thought the discussion concluded that a sudo user can do anything
(like put stuff in root's ~/.bashrc), and that this isn't something that
Emacs should worry about.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-26  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-25  1:09 Closing a privilege escalation Richard Stallman
2018-04-25  1:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-25 22:40   ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25  1:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-25 22:40   ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26  7:20     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-04-26  7:52       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-26 21:05       ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-26 21:26         ` Tim Cross
2018-04-27 15:57           ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-27  9:50         ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-04-27 14:29           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-25 15:25 ` Davis Herring
2018-04-25 16:47 ` Glenn Morris
2018-04-25 17:09   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:12     ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-25 17:55     ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-26 21:01     ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-25 17:10   ` Søren Pilgård

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