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From: wimdjo.wtm.tudelft.nl
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 13:54:46 CDT

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    > >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.