GNU bug report logs - #4197
23.1; error when try to run `server-start': directory .emacs.d/server is unsafe

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:34:41 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 865, 3281, 8787

Found in version 23.3

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> f2s.com>, 4197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#4197: 23.1; error when try to run `server-start': directory	.emacs.d/server	is	unsafe
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:35:15 +0300

> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:53:15 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> f2s.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> Yes. The security feature of emacsclient should probably be abstracted 
> so that appropriate methods for the platform can be used.  Then on 
> Windows (NT) we could use Security Descriptors directly without relying 
> on the filesystem to be secure.

Sorry, I don't quite understand your suggestion.  NT file security
cannot be used on FAT32 volumes, even if the OS is of the NT family
(Windows 2000, XP, etc.).  So, if you meant to use the NT file
security as the back-end of the abstraction you propose, that back-end
will be inoperable on FAT32 volumes, even for Windows XP.
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