Re: Installing TeX at a "secure" site?

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From: Karl Berry
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:01

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    By
    the way, an older version of GNU Emacs (which is running at the site
    who requested that info) installed some program as setuid root by
    mistake and created a major security hole.

This is not true.  See the file etc/FAQ in the GNU Emacs distribution.

Basically, the installers took it upon themselves to install movemail
setuid.  Naturally, a security risk resulted.  If you install any random
program setuid, a security risk results.

Personally, I have yet to see that the time lost in thinking about
security outweighs its benefits.  But this is not the place for that
discussion.

--
karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu.

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