Dear developers, There is the following bug in recent version(s) of Linphone on Linux: If one moves the /home/[username]/.linphonerc file to a different location and replaces it with a soft link instead, the link gets overwritten with the actual file when Linphone starts.
I don't know when it started, just that it was not there in around April versions and is present now. Test procedure: 1. Make sure that Linphone is closed completely (i.e. it's not present in the task bar) 2. Move both, /home/[username]/.linphonerc and /home/[username]/.linphone-history.db to a different drive (with a different file system) and place (soft) links to them in the original location. 3. Start Linphone (and let it sign into a previously configured SIP account) Expected results: 3. Both links stay being links Actual results: 3. /home/[username]/.linphone-history.db stays being a link, while /home/[username]/.linphonerc is overwritten with the actual file. Note: This may have privacy/security implications if, e.g., the actual files (containing account names and passwords, etc.) had been moved to, e.g. an encrypted drive, but then re-appear in the unencrypted home directory again, in plain text - possibly without the user noticing. Linphone 3.8.5, as provided by ppa:linphone/release; Linux Mint 17.1 (based on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty), 64 bit. Kind regards, Hannes _______________________________________________ Linphone-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users
