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bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:44:41 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:06:46 -0400
> Cc: 6953@debbugs.gnu.org, Mark Diekhans <markd@soe.ucsc.edu>
>
> Just had a thought that this kind of approach is not going to work for
> securing ~/%backup%~ files for people who have AFS home directories.
> Which probably is not many in % terms, but is more than zero. In AFS,
> the _only_ way to make files private to the owner is to put them in a
> private directory.
>
> On the other hand, simply creating a mode 700 directory does not
> necessarily make it private, you have to use AFS commands to set ACLs.
> But the approach of having backup files in a special directory would
> be closer to how AFS normally works.
The situation on MS-Windows is almost exactly the same. Files put in
private directories are private by default, but creating a new private
directory requires using Windows-specific ACL APIs.
Maybe it's time to have this functionality in Emacs.
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, (continued)
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- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/02
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Mark Diekhans, 2010/09/02
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/07
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/08
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/08
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/08
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/09
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/09
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Glenn Morris, 2010/09/09
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/28
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- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/29
- bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files, markd, 2010/09/29