[sane-devel] Where should a backend save config data ?
Henning Meier-Geinitz
henning at meier-geinitz.de
Thu Jul 25 20:48:24 BST 2002
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:07:09PM +0200, mh wrote:
> Ok, what about the following approach:
> -By default, no values are saved to disk.
> -If the user creates a directory $HOME/.tevion9693usb, then the files
> are saved there. For saned, this means that the values are used by all users
> that are allowed to scan over the network, if someone with permission to do
> so created /home/saned/.tevion9693usb.
> -The backend supplies two options:
> "Save calibration values to disk (if possible)"
> "Calibrate before next scan"
>
> Are there any problems with this approach ? I don't want to be the one who
> introduces a new security problem :-)
I don't think it's a security problem this way. However, I would use
$HOME/.sane/tevion9693usb/ .
Bye,
Henning
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