Subject: bug#67323: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Set a new desktop file to mode 0600

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:29:00 +0200

> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:23:56 +0100
> From:  Manuel Giraud via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> As a desktop file can contain some "secret" data, I think it is better
> to make it read/write only to the user by default.  This does not
> prevent the user to later change the mode of this desktop file if he
> wants to "share" it.

We don't do this in other cases, AFAICT, so why do it here?

The users can make this file unreadable by others if they want.

It's a backward-incompatible change in any case.