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in thread Successfully accessing files

That sounds like a good workaround, sgifford. I think I'll have users directly set permissions on all the scripts, and set up the installation script to only unzip and set permissions on the text files. Sounds like that would be a good way to avoid any security issues. (If my assumption's wrong, just let me know!)

Thanks!

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Re^3: Successfully accessing files
by sgifford (Prior) on May 01, 2007 at 05:13 UTC
    If the setup program only needs permission to change/install text files, and the text files can't cause your code to do anything dangerous, then that is a very good way to prevent the security issues I mentioned.

    Good luck!