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31.0.50; Untrusted user lisp files

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Message #23 received at 75017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: acorallo <at> gnu.org, jm <at> pub.pink, 75017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75017: 31.0.50; Untrusted user lisp files
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:36:15 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: john muhl <jm <at> pub.pink>,  75017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  Eli Zaretskii
>>  <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Andrea Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:16:05 -0500
>>
>> > Maybe we should install something like the below?
>>
>> Fine by me, but I think this should be added via a new
>> `trusted-content-function(s)` and added buffer-locally only in
>> elisp-mode buffers.
>
> Sorry, but this is slippery slope.  For starters, no one said that
> site-run-file is installed by a sysadmin -- that is only so on certain
> systems.  For example, MS-Windows is generally not in that category.

It doesn't matter who can edit it.  `site-run-file` is already trusted,
since it is loaded at run-time before `user-init-file`.

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