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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
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Jonathan Groll |
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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? |
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Thu, 09 May 2013 09:25:08 +0200 |
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On Wed, 08 May 2013 21:15:10 -0400, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
> > But emacs will always ask you if it should proceed due to that issue.
> > It will never do it automatically. It isn't intrinsically insecure.
>
> Well, that depends how paranoid you are. It used to be intrinsically
> insecure (only prompting the user for things known to be dicey) and has
> been improved over the years (always prompting unless told that it's
> safe), but there are so many variables marked as "safe" that might be
> used in unexpected ways by so many packages that "intrinsically secure"
> sounds naive.
>
> More specifically, I'd be *very* surprised if there aren't any "big
> security holes" waiting to be exploited in Emacs.
>
> > And you would need to be exposed to hostile user attack in order to
> > trigger it.
>
> Yes. I think that's what keeps you safe.
>
>
> Stefan "who uses Zile when running as root"
Sure, you can forget you're root, (in all cases), but dired as root is
maybe more than just a nice to have. For instance, it makes it easier
to browse the system logfiles, etc. I can't say that I'd never use
Emacs as root - it is simply too useful, and the trade-off of potential
security risk versus utility seems to me to be one that I'm willing to
make.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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