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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: I get "Insecure PATH" when I run commands from emacs...
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.191832.15997@convex.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 19:18:32 GMT
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The folks here report that as distributed, emacs leaves the wrong perms
on.  We locally fixed it.  If I were into conspiracy theories, I'd wonder
whether RMS intended this feature as a way for crackers to break into your
system using GNU emacs.  Of course, it's quite possible he never thought
of it.

--tom
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