Thanks Scott, Nice to know I have the option of getting rid of it. I, probably will leave it on once I get over the annoyance of it flashing up on every new file.
<i>Have you ever downloaded and compiled a .lyx file from the internet from a place you are not sure you could trust?</i> I suppose I have but so rarely that I cannot recall don't recall doing so in the last three or four years, at least. Unless downloading from here counts :) On 30 March 2018 at 18:02, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 09:00:34PM +0000, John Kane wrote: > > Ah, not a bug, a feature. I guess I will learn to live with it. > > Thanks very much. It's good to know I don't have a potentially serious > > problem in my configuration. > > You do not have to live with it (instructions below), but think hard > before you remove it. Have you ever downloaded and compiled a .lyx file > from the internet from a place you are not sure you could trust? It > would be extremely easy to make a .lyx file that would upload/delete all > of your files (because in R this is easy to write). And for that to > happen, all you would have to do is open the LyX file and compile it. > > That said, if clicking on "Always run for this document" is too much of > a pain, you can go to Tools > Preferences > Converters and uncheck the > option "Use needauth option". > > Scott > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada
