>Adobe Acrobat creates world writable ~/AdobeFnt.lst files
>
>This problem is present in at least the Linux version:
>ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/unix/4.x/linux-ar-405.tar.gz
>
>Even with umask as restrictive as 077, the Adobe binary explicitly
>creates and changes the AdobeFnt.lst file in the HOME directory to be
>world (and group) writable.

What anoys me almost as much as ignoring the umask is that this file
is placed directly into $HOME and isn't a "." file.

>Vendor notified: on or before 2001-03-02

I notified Adobe of this on October 27th 1999 and never got any reply,
see attached.

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.

251032: open("/home/darrenm/AdobeFnt.lst", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 01) = 6
251032: fchmod(6, 0666)

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Darren J Moffat
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