GNU bug report logs - #28618
Emacs respects $HOME, even when user is root

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dor Azouri <dor.azouri <at> safebreach.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:31:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, security, wontfix

Merged with 30912

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #39 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28618 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dor Azouri <dor.azouri <at> safebreach.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28618: Emacs Security Issue
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:55:13 -0400

tags 28618 - unreproducible
tags 28618 + notabug
quit

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> On some systems, sudo may preserve HOME by default. Or it may be
> optional behaviour with "sudo -E" (eg on Debian 8, it seems).

Ah, that explains the discrepancy then (it's the same with Debian 9,
which I'm using here).

> Ref eg
>
> https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18369/issues-with-preserving-home-on-sudo
>
> As it stands, I don't think this is an Emacs issue.

I agree.
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