John Levon wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Arnd Hanses wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:43:43 +0000 (GMT), Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
> >
> > And security/privacy means always security/privacy to be enforced by
> > default, unless somebody who knows what he is doing decides against
> > them. (Most commercial Linux distributions entirely would disagree; but
> > they are biased, because they must survive in M$ biotopes! ;-< And this
> > is not at all meant pejoratively!)
> >
>
> well I think if someone is writing sensitive information in a multi-user
> environment, they'd better know about this anyway. It would be up to the
> system administrator to set a global umask or whatever otherwise ...
>
> > So the default as well as the fallback should be some ~/.lyx/tmp/
> > directory. This would leave behind tmp files in case of a LyX crash,
> > which is only a good thing, isn't it?
> >
>
> well, I have a feeling this would bring many complaints from university
> students with small quotas and large reports ;) yes, it would be
> configurable, but I think /tmp is a reasonable default (I agree that
> this world-writable directory thing was always a bad idea though)
Why not set up the /tmp/lyx_... directory itself as mode 700? Shouldn't
this take care of the issue at hand?
Carl
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