Re: many packages write to `temporary-file-directory' insecurely

[Stefan Monnier]

> [ We're all on the list, so I'll drop the CCs ]
> 
> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 10:20, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > Which is not an option for Emacs.  I'd much rather have something like
> > /var/games/emacs-scores owned by root and only writable by root
> > with a file /var/games/emacs-scores/snake that's world-writable.
> 
> Well, for the Debian packaged version of Emacs, I think we will set it
> up so emacs is setgid games, and writes to /var/games/emacs or so.

This is then equivalent to making all users members of the `games'
group, so what's the point ?  You might as well make the thing world-writable
and not bother with the games group.


        Stefan