On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:34 PM Marc Mezzarobba <m...@mezzarobba.net> wrote: > > 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?
I suppose the idea of closing ~/.sage/ to the world was that it may contain something like (salted or not?) passwods for sagenb, as well as sagenb notebooks, so that students on the same host don't have a way to peek at each other homework, etc. I suppose we can remove these permission changes. > > 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. -- 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/CAAWYfq3Xp21xF9JjYcFxH9si%3Dfb7ij%3DxF2mNDXya1s8tMB6A7Q%40mail.gmail.com.
