From: Mark Hood <invalid@invalid.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Files created with emacs are owned by system
Date: 06 Aug 2008 16:42:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygf8wv9zp5f.fsf@invalid.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e2285773-5a60-4e6c-8617-1c18aa42f5bd@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com
iainb.forms@googlemail.com writes:
> Got rid of the setuid, thanks. I'm not sure why the 21.2 emacs is so
> small or the suid was there, so I checked on another Tiger machine. I
> can't be entirely sure emacs wasn't there from 10.3 (Panther), can't
> remember. If it's a virus, it still worked as emacs :)
As another poster has noted, the suid bit was set by the broken
"Repair Disk Permissions" function of the Disk Utility in some builds
of OSX 10.4. It's definitely a security risk that has supposedly been
fixed in some more recent update. (I haven't tested it myself yet).
The Emacs is small because it's just a compiled launcher for the real
Emacs that provides a terminal window for Emacs to run in if the
launcher was invoked without a terminal. The 21.2 version built into
OSX 10.4 isn't compiled with window system support.
-- Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 18:44 Files created with emacs are owned by system iainb.forms
2008-07-31 21:34 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-07-31 21:41 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-08-01 8:23 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.15696.1217578999.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 11:32 ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 11:38 ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 11:52 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15702.1217591538.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 12:01 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 13:33 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15706.1217597618.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 13:47 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 13:53 ` Richard G Riley
2008-08-01 14:08 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 14:22 ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 14:33 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 15:04 ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 15:53 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-01 16:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-08-01 16:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-01 17:47 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 18:50 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.15726.1217616618.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-01 19:17 ` David Kastrup
2008-08-01 20:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-02 8:25 ` iainb.forms
2008-08-06 23:42 ` Mark Hood [this message]
2008-08-01 19:24 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-02 1:54 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.15719.1217606007.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-02 19:18 ` D. Power
2008-08-01 15:31 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-02 1:33 ` Tim X
2008-08-02 1:29 ` Tim X
2008-08-01 13:16 ` iainb.forms
2008-08-01 13:39 ` Joost Kremers
2008-08-01 13:51 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-08-02 1:48 ` Tim X
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ygf8wv9zp5f.fsf@invalid.invalid \
--to=invalid@invalid.invalid \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.