On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> Is it a WAD (works as designed) that LyX generates world accessible
> files in /tmp? For instance if I do a 'File-View dvi' then world
> accessible .dvi file is generated in /tmp. I know I can redirect the
> /tmp for instance to ~/tmp but this requires explicit action while the
> default certainly can cause undesired security exposure.
LyX uses the same umask as that of the user who started it. So if you
don't want world readable files you change your umask. For tcsh its
something like:
umask 027
so the group can still see it.
If the world can see your files in /tmp they can probably also see them
in ~ given your current umask.
Allan. (ARRae)
