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Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:59:58 -0500 |
> [ We're all on the list, so I'll drop the CCs ]
>
> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:20, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > Which is not an option for Emacs. I'd much rather have something like
> > /var/games/emacs-scores owned by root and only writable by root
> > with a file /var/games/emacs-scores/snake that's world-writable.
>
> Well, for the Debian packaged version of Emacs, I think we will set it
> up so emacs is setgid games, and writes to /var/games/emacs or so.
This is then equivalent to making all users members of the `games'
group, so what's the point ? You might as well make the thing world-writable
and not bother with the games group.
Stefan
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, (continued)
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/11
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/17
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Steve Kemp, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/18
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Pavel JanÃk, 2002/03/19
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/20
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/27
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/30
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/09
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/03
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/03
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/03