On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 04:21:52PM +0100, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > On 30/11/2016 11:12, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2016 um 00:06:59, schrieb Scott Kostyshak > > <skost...@lyx.org> > > > Do we currently have a way of specifying preferences when running > > > ctests? I think after Tommaso's security improvements, we need to put > > > the following in the Testing/.lyx/preferences: > > > > > > \use_converter_needauth_forbidden false > > > \use_converter_needauth false > > ops, very first instance of usability troubles after the security fix :-)...
Well I was actually happy to see the exports failing. Thank you for your work on that. And as I mentioned it would be nice for other reasons to modify the default preferences of the ctests. > was it easy to spot that the tests were failing due to the new security > restriction ? Yes. (1) I knew to expect it since I saw your improvements. (2) even if I did not, when you go to export the manual, whether on the command line or in the GUI the error gives and idea of what's going on. > On a related note, I vaguely remember an old thread about monkey testing LyX, > leading to possible undesired side effects, such as LyX loading/saving or > even printing random files and what not... the other security patch, AA-based > hardening/sandboxing, could be used to restrict things that LyX can > potentially do during those/other tests, just in case... Yes I remember that also. Those bug reports stopped coming after a certain time. I'm not sure if the author got bored or we were not quick with fixing the bugs (perhaps because they were strange cases?). I thought it was a creative way of finding bugs. Scott
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