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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Is GNU Cause of Security Problems???
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Date: 11 May 88 16:21:09 GMT
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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

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