Re: Adobe Acrobat creates world writable ~/AdobeFnt.lst files

[wim () djo wtm tudelft nl]

> > Adobe Acrobat creates world writable ~/AdobeFnt.lst files
...
> Another possible workaround would be to create a shared object that
> replaced the open/chmod calls that change the permissions on the file,
> this could then be LD_PRELOAD'd so that acroread doesn't do the wrong thing.
>
> Using truss on Solaris we can easily see that acroread actually makes
> an explicit call to set the permissions to 0666.

And what if that call fails?
chattr +i will do miracles, I imagine.


Regards, Wim.