Re: Emacs support for Trojan horses

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 19:35

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In article <3188@charon.cwi.nl>, guido@cwi (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>Shouldn't this feature be protected in some way, e.g., by asking the
>user permission to execute such code (if it is more than just setting
>a major mode)?

There is inihibit-local-variables, for which ^Hv gives:

inhibit-local-variables's value is t

Documentation:
*Non-nil means query before obeying a file's local-variables list.
This applies when the local-variables list is scanned automatically
after you find a file.  If you explicitly request such a scan with
M-x normal-mode, there is no query, regardless of this variable.

but it is nil by default.  On most of the systems I use, it's set to t
in default.el.

//Jyrki

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From: jkp@SAUNA.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
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Subject: Re: Emacs support for Trojan horses
Keywords: Trojan horse, security, Emacs
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Date: 22 Mar 91 19:35:51 GMT
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