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- From: ckclark@athena.mit.edu (Calvin Clark)
- Subject: Re: Emacs auto-save file permissions problem
- In-Reply-To: mc@uk.co.gec-mrc's message of 30 Jul 92 13:32:14 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:27:08 GMT
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- >>>>> On 30 Jul 92 13:32:14 GMT, mc@uk.co.gec-mrc (Mark J Colby) said:
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- Mark> Basically, my emacs uses default file permissions for the
- Mark> auto-save file, not those of the file in the buffer. This
- Mark> seems bad for security (personal or otherwise) since
- Mark> temporary files sometimes get left around.
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- One solution is to change auto-save-main-directory to point to a fascist
- directory. I used to have emacs create a fascist directory in /usr/tmp
- upon startup, and set auto-save-main-directory to that.
-
- -Calvin
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- Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
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