Re: Security problem im temp directory.

[Kayvan A. Sylvan]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Stefan Eilers wrote:
> Hi folks ! 
> 
> I am very unhappy to see that created files in the lyx temp directory
> (*.ps,*.dvi,*.tex,...) are readable to the whole world ! Thus, every
> person who is allowed to access this directory can read what I'am
> currently writing. And if lyx crashed without to clean the temp
> directory, everyone could read what I have written previously, too !

Here's your clean workaround:

Put this in a file (mylyx) and chmod +x it:

  #!/bin/sh
  #
  umask 077
  lyx ${1+"$@"}

Nothing else is necessary.

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