[Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

[GSR]

Hi,
kiniou at gmail.com (2010-05-12 at 1230.51 +0200):
> GSR wrote, On 12/05/2010 02:23:
> > That is a distro workaround to fix a Blender vulnerability (classical
> > symlink attack).
> Yes maybe (I'm no security expert) ... but do you mean Blender should 
> not adopt this workaround on unix-like system? This is what both the 
> proposal and the debian package suggest on this platform (I haven't any 
> suggestions about OSX and Windows).

Unix has things like mkstemp for this. That was a quick workaround,
not a right solution.

> As I read your previous emails, you are not in favor with temporary 
> files located in $HOME directory because of networked user directory 
> setups. I think those setups are usually managed by some sysadmin ( or 
> crasy geek user :D ) and therefore Blender should be deployed and 
> configured by them with environment variables or system-wide config files.

Normal users will have to clean up their home. Normal installs do that
for you with system wide directories (typically on reboots or based in
file age) .

GSR