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Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs


On Aug 30 03:32, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > What needs to be done is to fix the ssh-host-config script.  It adds an
> > ACE for SYSTEM on /var/empty, /etc, and /var/log for no apparent reason.
> 
> If it's not apparent: you can actually prevent system from accessing the file
> by removing access from SYSTEM user to the file.

No, you can't.  You only can for accounts not having and applications
not enabling backup and restore rights.  But, anyway, this has nothing
to do with extra permissions on /var/empty which the SYSTEM account
really doesn't need.


Corinna

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