openethereum / fether

Decentralized and light Ethereum Wallet
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add documentation regarding AppImage #551

Closed Tbaut closed 4 years ago

Tbaut commented 4 years ago

Add a headsup (in the Readme) along the line:

When the Fether application is started through the bundled AppImage package, there are configuration options for AppImage itself before it starts the Fether application. Specifically, when creating a directory with the same name as the binary, ending in .home, the directory will be used as the value for $HOME . This presents a potential risk when a user executes the Fether application, since external actors could control the $HOME directory used by Fether, which is responsible for storing keys and local cache data. The AppImage system will only perform this operation when the .home directory is accessible to the user executing the AppImage package.