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Subject: Re: DCOP question
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: 1999-11-17 14:19:50
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Err, if you don't have write access to your home directory hardly
anything will work - mail, news, netscape, bash history, etc... It is
quite reasonable to expect people's home directory to be readable.
Simon Josefsson wrote:
...snip...
> Please don't require $HOME to be writable, imho KDE should be usable
> if ~ is read-only, within the obvious limitations.
>
> Also, imho temporary application specific files should not be stored
> in users home directories but instead in /tmp or similar, and care
> should be taken so that it can't be exploited somehow. IMHO.
>
> /s
--
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com
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