POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Public rendering : Re: Public rendering Server Time
16 May 2024 23:19:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Public rendering  
From: clipka
Date: 14 Sep 2009 15:36:24
Message: <4aae9b38$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:
>> I'm quite sure I forgot some.
> 
>   Yes: You forgot that POV-Ray has had for a long time security features
> which can be specified in the ~/.povray/3.6/povray.conf file. These security
> features include things like which directories a scene file is allowed to
> read and/or write. This feature was added at some point precisely for this
> exact purpose.

No, I didn't forget: I just never knew. I do know that such rules exist 
for Windows, but wasn't sure about Unix. From the Windows docs, it would 
appear that they were limited to Windows to mimick file access rights 
you'd have on a Unix box.


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