Eli Zaretskii, I read somewhere that a file called "server" should be created in the .emacs.d/server folder. This folder is empty for me. Is it always a path or permission problem ?
Gamoto ================================= == En réponse au message du 11-03-2011, 19:39:56 == >> From: Ben Key <bke...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:42:25 -0600 >> >> My guess is that the reason it did not work is that Gamoto was attempting to >> use a directory other than "C:\Documents and >> Settings\Administrator\Application Data" as his home directory. > >As you saw in the meantime, that is not the case. It was a simple >cockpit error. Files and directories owned by Administrator can live >in any directory on the disk,not just under "Application Data". > >> Windows uses special security settings for the Application Data >> directory that are intended to ensure only the user the Application >> Data directory is for has access to it > >Well, that's not really accurate (e.g., I can easily access that >directory of Administrator on my system, although I'm not >Administrator). That's because Windows allows access to files and >directories not only according to the rights explicitly stored with >the file's security information, but also via implicit access rights >due to user's being part of certain user groups. For example, all >members of the "Users" group can access all the files of any other >member of "Users", even though that user's name is not recorded in the >ACLs of the file with any kind of access rights. > >But that is another theme for another rainy day. It isn't really >relevant to the issue at hand. I mentioned it to make a point: that >on Windows, creating a directory that is accessible only by a single >user is a highly non-trivial task. > >> If I set HOME to "c:\" and start Emacs, and then call server-start, >> the server directory is created in "c:\.emacs.d\server" and I get >> the server unsafe message. > >I got tired of answering questions about this warning, so I modified >server.el in the repository a few hours ago to consider this situation >(whereby the user is Administrator whereas the directory owner is >Administrators) as safe. I hope this will finally put this issue to >rest. > >Btw, there are quite a few places in Emacs Lisp sources where the >user's UID is compared to zero, the assumption being that a UID of >zero means the super-user. This is incorrect on Windows, where the >corresponding UID is 500 (while zero is a UID of Everybody, a user who >has no rights at all). Perhaps someone would want to write a function >root-uid-p, say, that will DTRT both on Posix and Windows, and then >fix all those places? > ========================================
