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Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:40:59 -0700 (MST) |
We should instead define a `score-files-directory' which could default
to "/var/games" or to "~/.emacs.d".
That seems like a reasonable approach.
Would someone like to do it?
If /var/games is treated just like /tmp, meaning anyone can create a
file in it, then it will raise the same security issues as /tmp. We
could perhaps use the code that Al Petrovsky sent, if that is correct.
Or we could say that the files should be created by root during
installation, and that /var/games should not allow anyone but root to
create files.
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, (continued)
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/02
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Pavel JanÃk, 2002/03/02
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/03
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/03
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/03
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Al Petrofsky, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/04
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Andreas Schwab, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/05
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Stefan Monnier, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/06
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/03/07
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08