Re: Security problem im temp directory.

[John Levon]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Stefan Eilers wrote:

> I know this solution. 
> But I think it should be the default way to protect tempfiles against
> other users in the system and not a nice option for paranoid people. Or
> do you think the ordinary lyx user want to be observable ?
> Therefore I thought of a solution which was included into the sources of
> lyx. A special startup script is ok (and the simplest way), but I think
> it should be included into the default package...

What system is this, according to my man page both mkstemp AND mktemp
will use a permission of 600 anyway ...

Are we not using tempname() somewhere in the LyX source or what ?

john

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