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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:40:05AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> 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.

it's on my list...

fwiw, I put a diff for the changes I applied last night here:

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/vile-9.7r2.patch.gz

and I'll factor in the extra information from today.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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