Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Steve Kemp <address@hidden>
   Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:49:01 +0000

   >   But it would appear to have the major flaw that a malicious user
   >  could fake their scores with almost no effort, eg:
   > 
   > [matrix] skx > update-score --file=/var/games/emacs/snake-score 
--add-score "Steve 99999999999999 points"

I do not think we should/could prevent this. Note, that this is possible
right now too...
-- 
Pavel Janík

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