Re: [vile] vile-9.7q.patch.gz

[Paul Fox]

thomas wrote:
 > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
 > 
 > >> P.S. I'm not really looking forward to chmod'ing all my .vile* stuff
 > >> on dozens of machines, but OK. :)
 > >
 > > I'll also check and see if there's some reliable indication that
 > > the privacy groups are setup.
 > 
 > as an afterthought, I _could_ make vile limit the permissions and
 > just tell you about it...

i don't think either of those things is necessary.  seems to me
that if the user has set their $HOME-based dot-files to allow
group write, then they have a reason.  insecure dotfiles in other
places (i.e., current dir) should probably be more-stringent, and
turning on popup-messages when one is discovered (and is being
ignored) is probably the best solution i've heard.

paul
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