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Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:07:36 -0700 (MST) |
> The convention for /var/games is that it is writable for a special group
> (game) only, and any program wanting to have access to it must be setgid
> game.
Emacs doesn't need to write in /var/games, it just needs to be able to
write certain specific files that are somewhere under /var/games.
Those files could be created by Emacs installation (which is run as
root) and given modes that allow Emacs to update them.
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, (continued)
- 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, 2002/03/04
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, 2002/03/10
- 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