portable version could prevent to store recent-file
Bug #2043886 reported by
Huw Kirk
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HomeBank |
Fix Released
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Low
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Maxime DOYEN | ||
Bug Description
Hi,
Sadly the portable Windows-version is not completely portable.
It creates a file "recently-
This should be fixed (maybe move it to .\config?), because users certainly do not expect to leave traces about their financial documents everywhere where they did look into them!
It's kind of a security vulnerability, but no actual data is spread (despite the information where you are storing it), so I'll not set the checkbox. - Feel free to change this if necessary.
Revision history for this message
| Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) wrote Re: portable version should prevent to store recent-file | #1 |
| summary: |
- Portable windows version is not portable + portable version should prevent to store recent-file |
| summary: |
- portable version should prevent to store recent-file + portable version could prevent to store recent-file |
| Changed in homebank: | |
| milestone: | none → 5.7.3 |
| Changed in homebank: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Maxime DOYEN (mdoyen) |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Changed in homebank: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This file is a standard gtk file to store recent file.
It does not make the app not portable, nor it is any kind of vulnerability, leaving a path don't give you access to the data itself, even on a cloud.
On windows OS (an others) there is also a native last opened file list stored into the local disk.
internal note: we could set gtk setting: gtk-recent-