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Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely |
Date: |
18 Mar 2002 17:36:23 -0500 |
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 15:06, Richard Stallman wrote:
> My gut feeling is that it really would be best to go with
> ~/.emacs.d/games or so.
>
> That means users do not see each others' scores.
> I think this is a mistake.
I was talking with some Debian hackers on IRC about this problem, and
one of them suggested a setgid helper program, sort of like movemail.
This seems to me to be the best solution. We could give it arguments
like:
/usr/lib/emacs/21.3/update-score --file=/var/games/emacs/snake-scores
--add-score "Jane Hacker <address@hidden> 12345 points"
And we should probably impose a limit of, say, 50 scores, and 200
characters in a score line.
One problem with this is I have no idea what should be done on Windows;
I guess we can not care about that for now though.
Any thoughts/objections regarding this solution?
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, (continued)
- 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
- 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 <=
- 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, 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, Richard Stallman, 2002/03/08
- Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely, Colin Walters, 2002/03/08