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bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:17:21 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> FWIW, I find this behavior very surprising (and dangerous).
Yes, me too. I can't think of any other program that behaves in this
manner.
> BTW, thinking about "dangerous" above, I guess the behavior might make
> sense when you're `su`ing *from* root rather than the other way around.
By default, /root on many systems isn't readable by anybody but root, so
I don't think it makes much sense in any situation...
I think Emacs shouldn't do this at all. When was this introduced, and
what was the reasoning behind it?
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- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/10
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Glenn Morris, 2019/07/10
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/11
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/12
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Andreas Schwab, 2019/07/13
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Kangas, 2019/07/13
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/13
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Andreas Schwab, 2019/07/13
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/13
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Richard Stallman, 2019/07/13
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/15