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Re: Closing a privilege escalation
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Closing a privilege escalation |
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Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:29:40 -0400 |
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On 2018-04-27 05:50, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> On 2018-04-26, at 23:05, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> to arrange to take advantage later. One way is by editing .emacs
>> so that it will do something bad next time the user runs Emacs under sudo.
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> Out of curiosity: why would anyone run Emacs under sudo? Shouldn't it
> be disabled? (Possibly, there might be option, called
> e.g. --i-explicitly-do-ask-for-troubles, which could enable that.)
Force of habit, I guess. I know about TRAMP's sudo method and I sometimes use
it, but for quick edits I often just use sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list, for
example.
- Closing a privilege escalation, Richard Stallman, 2018/04/24
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Noam Postavsky, 2018/04/24
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/04/24
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Richard Stallman, 2018/04/25
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/04/26
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/04/26
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Richard Stallman, 2018/04/26
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Tim Cross, 2018/04/26
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/04/27
- Re: Closing a privilege escalation,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Davis Herring, 2018/04/25
Re: Closing a privilege escalation, Glenn Morris, 2018/04/25