On Monday, January 27, 2020 at 9:34:41 AM UTC-5, Marc Mezzarobba wrote:
>
>
> 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). 

  
In my opinion, it should set these permissions when it creates the DOT_SAGE 
directory
for the first time (similar to how permissions of files like 
~/.python_history or ~/.bash_history are set), but not adjust them if the 
directory already exists. It would be appropriate to write out a warning 
though if they are more permissive than rwx------.

Matthias

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