[Bug-XBoard] Security concern

[John Summerfield]

I administer, amongst other things, computers running Windows XP.

A key point in computer security is that users do not have 
administrative rights. Related to this is that administrative accounts 
are used only for computer administration.

A typical administrative task is installing software such as winboard.

A typical user "task" is using software such as winboard.

On a well-managed computer, a user cannot install software such as 
winboard, and an administrator does not use it.

This leads to a problem with software such as winboard: winboard stores 
user-related data in its installation directory. This means that, on a 
well-managed computer, all the different users have but one set of options.

On Linux and Unix, programs store users' preferences in a location in 
their home directory - in the case of xboard, ~/.xboard would be an 
appropriate location.

My observation, I've not seen relevant documentation, is that in 
Windows, the appropriate location would be
%HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\Application Data\Winboard

This allows individual users to save their preferences, impossible with 
the existing setup, and for different users of the same computer to have 
their own separate settings.

The obvious workaround, to run winboard as an administrator, has the bad 
side effect of reducing computer security.

Please, as a matter of urgency, create a new release addressing this 
problem.