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Re: creating backups in temporary directories
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: creating backups in temporary directories |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:12:33 -0400 |
But in a directory with mode 1777 when you open a file that *you* own,
nobody else can remove it or rename it, so normally nobody can replace it
with a symlink. Emacs creates the problem when it moves /tmp/foo to
/tmp/foo~ at which point /tmp/foo is free for an attacker to take.
This suggests that Emacs should always do backup by copying
in such directories. Would that solve the problem?
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, (continued)
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, David Kastrup, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Andreas Schwab, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, David Kastrup, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Davis Herring, 2007/09/10
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, David Kastrup, 2007/09/10
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- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Davis Herring, 2007/09/10
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/11
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Davis Herring, 2007/09/11
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Davis Herring, 2007/09/07
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Chris Moore, 2007/09/08
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/08
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Stefan Monnier, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, David Kastrup, 2007/09/09
- Re: creating backups in temporary directories, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/09