[2372] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Linux/Athena security updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Aug 1 14:11:27 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 01 Aug 2000 14:11:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:49:45 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hem48onqw.fsf@kempis.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > emacs:
> > With emacs < 20.7, unprivileged local users can eavesdrop the
> > communication between Emacs and its subprocesses.
>
> Since we have 20.3 in the Athena release, I'd be interested in a
> source code patch for this one.
Basically it requires switching to UNIX98 pty's.
I'll have a real patch soon.
