Authentication in GNUCash

[David G. Hamblen]

On 05/16/2010 11:57 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote:
> Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>
>> No.
>> GnuCash was not developed in the Windows World, but in the Unix 
>> world, where user accounts have the requirement to log in on startup.
>> It's a different philosophy.
>>
>>
> Or more precisely, developed in the 'nix world which does not allow 
> users to disable "log in requires user name and password".
>
> For a long time now the Windows World has had available requiring 
> logging in with user Id and password. Not the fault of the operating 
> system that it allows (foolish) users to disable this fundamental 
> level of security. MS is in the business of creating systems for money 
> and that's a "convenience" their users seem to want as so many seem to 
> do just that. Not require a password and letting their user sessions 
> have administrator rights.
>
> Michael
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I just noticed that all of my gnucash data is stored with permissions 
644 (only I can write to it, but any user of my computer can read it).   
Shouldn't the default be 600 (owner read/write, but group and other 
can't read).  Since I'm the only user, it doesn't matter, but this seems 
like an odd default.  Perhaps this is an Ubuntu/Debian installation issue.

Dave