On 04/14/2017 11:46 AM, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
Look, if you have malicous software running on the system with normal user
priviliges, you are in big trouble anyway. There's so many things that
malicous software could do even if TBB was installed at a non-writable
location. Just as a simple exa
Look, if you have malicous software running on the system with normal user
priviliges, you are in big trouble anyway. There's so many things that
malicous software could do even if TBB was installed at a non-writable
location. Just as a simple example, malware could just change the location in
On 04/12/2017 03:23 AM, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
Both methods (putting apps into global dirs vs. putting them into home
dirs)
have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Jonathan - thanks. Other than automatically updating, what are the
advantages of installing to /home/user - or somewher
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 02:18:38PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
> I'm not "doing" anything with /home permissions - it's Linux defaults.
> AFAIK, once a user logs into their 'nix acct, anything that writes to (most)
> files in /home can do so - w/o any prompting.
I think the confusion comes from the
On 04/11/2017 03:47 AM, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:11:48PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
What is the reason(s) the TBB instructions say do not install (extract) TBB
to root?
Is it so the TBB files will be in a location where the user has write
permissions, so that TBB upda
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:11:48PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
> What is the reason(s) the TBB instructions say do not install (extract) TBB
> to root?
> Is it so the TBB files will be in a location where the user has write
> permissions, so that TBB updates can automatically D/L and install?
Yes,
What is the reason(s) the TBB instructions say do not install (extract)
TBB to root?
Is it so the TBB files will be in a location where the user has write
permissions, so that TBB updates can automatically D/L and install?
Other than that, does installing TBB to a location where anyone /
anyt
