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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 17:00:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Because it'll run with full admin privileges the user's ~/.emacs which
>> was likely not written under the assumption that you have to be very
>> careful not to mess up the whole system.
>
> Isn't that what 'su' is supposed to allow?
Under su you can run any command -- that's true.
But it's unexpected to have a program run this code as root. At least,
it's not what I would expect, and I have not written the code in
/home/larsi/.emacs under the assumption that is has to be safe for root
to run.
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- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, (continued)
- 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
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Noam Postavsky, 2019/07/15
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/15
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Steinar Bang, 2019/07/23
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/23
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/12
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Stefan Monnier, 2019/07/12
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/12
- bug#36583: 26.1; emacs 26 tries loading original user's .emacs after su to root,
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