GNU bug report logs - #74674
30.0.91; Can't delete an empty symlink when trashing is enabled for root

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Message #20 received at 74674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "74674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <74674 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>
Subject: Re: bug#74674: 30.0.91; Can't delete an empty symlink when trashing
 is enabled for root
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 19:53:58 -0600

Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/4/2024 12:47 PM, the_wurfkreuz via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss
> army knife of text editors wrote:
>> The problem got even more complicated. Now i'm trying to just delete any file,
>> and i can't do that whether i have trashing enabled or not:
>> ~/.emacs.d $ (require 'em-tramp)
>> em-tramp
>> ~/.emacs.d [1] $ eshell/sudo touch /usr/local/bin/test-file
>> ~/.emacs.d $ eshell/sudo rm /usr/local/bin/test-file
>> Removing old name: Permission denied, /usr/local/bin/test-file
>
> This is the correct behavior; you shouldn't be able to delete the file using
> this method. In short, "/usr/local/bin/test-file" refers to a *local* file name,
> so it's not going through Tramp's "sudo" method, and thus it's correct to report
> that you don't have permission.
>
> Some more detail: Eshell built-in commands like "rm" (which the built-in
> "eshell/sudo" will call) treat absolute file names as ordinary, local files,
> just like the rest of Emacs would. Specifically, it won't automatically prepend
> the "/sudo::" method to it. Doing that is bug#70792, which I have a patch for
> but haven't finished yet.

Should the bugs be merged perhaps?

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