That seems to be a feature rather than a bug.

el

On 2018-03-20 04:22 , Steve Hnizdur wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I upgraded Lyx to the shiny new 2.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 the other day and
> the first time hit the "eyes" icon to compile a document I got the Lyx
> Security Warning
> 
> "The following LaTeX backend has been configured to allow execution of
> external programs for any document:
> pdflatex --shell-escape $$i
> This is a dangerous configuration. Please, consider using the support
> offered by LyX for allowing this privilege only to documents that
> actually need it, instead."
> 
> The configuration has not been changed by me and is therefore the
> standard delivered out of the box Lyx configuration.
> 
> OK so what is the support offered by Lyx as mentioned? Also as this is
> under the control of Lyx why is it there at all?
> 
> Cheers

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