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Item4972: session files should only be created for web based sessions.

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Item4898 and the related debian cve show that we should avoid writing session files un-necessarily, as that leads to needing looser file and dir permissions than sensible, thus allowing a lookin for hackers.

-- TWiki:Main/SvenDowideit - 15 Nov 2007

Session files are not written when the command_line context is set (which it should be automatically for all scripts invoked from the command-line via UI.pm). Scripts that do not go via UI.pm - such as rest - set command_line themselves. The only other scripts that I'm aware of that might have a problem are the tests, and most of the time we deliberately want the tests to use a query / session. Some other scripts, such as mailnotify, have been sloppily written and don't set command_line. So I have modified TWiki.pm to set command_line if no other initial context is given, and there is no query. I believe that should answer.

Checkins Rev:15712 Rev:15713 mistakenly attributed to 4982

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Summary session files should only be created for web based sessions.
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
Codebase ~twiki4
SVN Range TWiki-4.3.0, Thu, 15 Nov 2007, build 15592
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Priority Normal
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Checkins Rev:15712 Rev:15713
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Topic revision: r3 - 2008-01-22 - KennethLavrsen
 
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