Thanks, you managed to understand my question. I was wondeing if there was
a risk of privilege escalation. Fortunately that seems not to be the case.


El jue., 27 may. 2021 15:13, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> escribió:

>
> Rafael Ramirez Morales <rafael.ramirezmorales@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Just a couple of questions:
> > who is the owner of the HELLO file?
> > OR
> > who is the owner of the "touch" process?
> >
> > Is the owner the unprivileged user or the "emacs" system?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Not clear exactly what your asking. The process which will execute the
> 'touch' will be a sub-process of the process running Emacs. This will
> typically be the user who executes Emacs and willl have the same
> permissions and access rights as the user running Emacs. There is no
> 'emacs' system and the privileges will be the same as the user who runs
> Emacs. This is assuming a 'normal' installation, not some unusual setup
> which uses setuid or similar to alter the way Emacs runs or the
> ownership of files in a directory etc.
>
>