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From: michael@pbinfo.UUCP (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is GNU Cause of Security Problems???
Message-ID: <220@corona.pb>
Date: 2 May 88 08:40:21 GMT
References: <5290@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, FB17/Informatik
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Summary: May be.

Neulich schrieb dhm@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Miller):
  	Once they saw his input, they determined he was using a bug in the
  	GNU EMACS text editor to establish himself as a system manager by
  	placing his own programs in the systems area.
  
One has to be very carefull in installing GNUEmacs. (Well, you
have always to be very carefull.) You can install Emacs with
#undef'ined HIGHPRIORITY, then forget that and set the suid bit
on Emacs on the owner to root. This will cause at least, that
your files owned by root. I didn't try processes, but ...

     Michael Schmidt

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