Re: Closing a privilege escalation

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The discussion reached the conclusion that the problem is real, even
>> with recent GNU/Linux systems.  We have not fixed it.
>
> I thought the discussion concluded that a sudo user can do anything
> (like put stuff in root's ~/.bashrc), and that this isn't something that
> Emacs should worry about.

Oh, I see: The sploit here is that somebody has access to a user's
account, but doesn't know what the user's password is?  So they place
something in the user's .emacs file that'll be run after the user does a
sudo and then starts Emacs as root?

Sounds kinda cumbersome when the attacker could just install a keylogger
for the user and so on...

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