Hi, I just noticed that Sage unconditionally changes the permissions of the DOT_SAGE directory to rwx--- even after the user manually modified them (sage/misc/misc.py, l. 92ff). It seems to me however that there are perfectly valid reasons to share one's .sage with other users. Worse, Sage crashes if the attempt to set the permissions fails (try chattr +i ~/.sage).
Despite some comments in the code, I don't understand how people got to the idea of fiddling with these permissions in the first place, so I'm not sure how to fix the issue. Any opinions? Thanks, -- Marc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/r0msdo%2413j1%241%40ciao.gmane.io.
