Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: I get "Insecure PATH" when I run commands from emacs... Message-ID: <1991Jun19.221732.2945@uunet.uu.net> Date: 19 Jun 91 22:17:32 GMT References: <1991Jun17.011615.13952@convex.com> <1991Jun17.191832.15997@convex.com> Distribution: comp.lang.perl Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 25 In article <1991Jun17.191832.15997@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >The folks here report that as distributed, emacs leaves the wrong perms Emacs isn't distributed with any permissions. You have to build it. You have to install it. And you have the opportunity to change it. >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. Emacs 18.55 and previous versions ran setuid kmem so they could grovel and scrape the load average out of the kernel. Presumably, there was enuf objection so that in later versions, a separate program does so instead. Extend the privilege only as far as necessary. >--tom >-- >Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist > "So much mail, so little time." So much news, so little time. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane