Re: Elisp security checks?

karlheg(a)inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: Only as much as it would be useful for any other interpreter (such as a shell) to warn against world-writable stuff. Which is to say, not really. As with any other interpreter, you should know what you are doing when you load Lisp files from XEmacs. It would perhaps make sense to check the world-writability of `.emacs', which is loaded *automatically*, but even that would likely be a wrong idea, since I can think of a number of circumstances when it would be perfectly appropriate for .emacs to be world- or group-writable. To summarize, I don't like the idea of these security warnings. Each user should worry about his security, without XEmacs holding his hand. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation.