Polari randomly creates a file called salt into the home directory, please fix
I’ve been running Fedora Gnome 37 since its release, never any issues. Today I noticed a new, yet unknown file in my home directory called “salt” and it’s only 8 bytes so while it’s not much in terms of size, I did not create it and no application that I know of uses it. I have not installed any new applications recently, so this came as a bit of a shock. Not sure if it’s just some random, harmless little bug from somewhere or if I should be at all concerned about this.
Feel free to let me know if you have any information about seeing this. When I try to open the file it says “Could not display salt, the file is of an unknown type” so I’m wondering if it’s safe to delete it. All my applications have been installed from dnf, flatpak, or gnome software, I haven’t used any copr repos or anything out of the ordinary; nothing was ever installed outside of the Fedora repos, Flatpak repos, or RPMFusion repos. My .bash_history file in my home directory shows nothing with ‘salt’ in it either, i’ve never used the word salt for anything on my computer, which is why I find this odd.
Edit: When I open the file ‘salt’ with Text Editor, this is all I see:
Please let me know if you need any additional information so that I may better help you in tracking this issue down, thank you.
Polari was installed from the RPM version from the Fedora repos btw:
Installed Packages
Name : polari
Version : 43.0
Release : 1.fc37
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 1.9 M
Source : polari-43.0-1.fc37.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : updates
Summary : Internet Relay Chat client for GNOME
URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Polari
License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Description : Polari is an Internet Relay Chat client for the GNOME desktop.