On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:09:30PM +0100, 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...
>
I disagree. This is a system administration issue.
If the policy at a particular site is more restrictive than the
default, then setting all users' umasks properly is the way to go.
You also have the option of putting the temp directory in, say,
/var/tmp/my_lyx_private/ where /var/tmp/my_lyx_private is set
up so that only you can read/write to it.
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