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bug#36154: 26.2; read-passwd function creates a security issue
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Noam Postavsky |
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bug#36154: 26.2; read-passwd function creates a security issue |
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Date: |
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:49:56 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
> On 2019-10-10 12:25, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> I think it makes sense to allow users to do this -- this is something
>> that should be up to them whether to do or not. So I'm closing this
>> bug
>> report. If anybody disagrees with this, please feel free to reopen.
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> A potential solution to this would to make the low-level kill functions
> respect a new `inhibit-kill-ring' variable, such that nothing would be
> added to the kill ring if that was non-nil.
IMO, it would be bettter to rebind the kill commands to corresponding
delete commands in read-passwd-map.