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bug#67323: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Set a new desktop file to mode 0600
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#67323: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Set a new desktop file to mode 0600 |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:29:00 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:23:56 +0100
> From: Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> As a desktop file can contain some "secret" data, I think it is better
> to make it read/write only to the user by default. This does not
> prevent the user to later change the mode of this desktop file if he
> wants to "share" it.
We don't do this in other cases, AFAICT, so why do it here?
The users can make this file unreadable by others if they want.
It's a backward-incompatible change in any case.