Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Is GNU Cause of Security Problems??? Message-ID: <5263@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 11 May 88 16:21:09 GMT References: <5290@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <4983@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <193@ists> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Organization: Freelance Software Consultant, Boston, Ma. Lines: 21 In article <193@ists> mike@ists (Mike Clarkson) writes: >Nothing in gnu Emacs is suid root (or anything else), nor is anything >default world writable. Gnu should be no more "dangerous" than any >other program. >-- >Mike Clarkson mike@ists.UUCP >Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science mike@ists.yorku.ca >York University, North York, Ontario, >CANADA M3J 1P3 (416) 736-5611 Sorry mike. You are wrong. $ grep -n chmod gnuemacs-18.51/build-install gnuemacs-18.51/build-install:29:chmod 777 $BIN/{ctags,etags,emacs} PS. For those that haven't caught on yet, change the 777 to 755 --- Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) 326 Commonwealth Ave. UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang Boston, Ma. 02115 TEL: (617) 267-4365