Zotero 5 in lab environment issue
A strange issue was reported to me, and replicated, regarding using Zotero on lab PCs. We have Zotero 5 installed as part of our computer lab image that is served through a virtual server. User A logs in to the PC and syncs their account on Zotero 5, then logs out of the PC. User B logs into the PC and can see User A's citations in their library. User A's account is not synced, and it will ask User B to sync their library, but it is still concerning that User B is able to see User A's library at all. Each user on the lab PCs logs in as themselves, so the user profile changes, so it seems that something is stored globally. Restarting the lab PC wipes out everything, because a new image is served on restart.
In the next version, we're going to add a command-line flag to allow use of the profile directory for storing data. I'll post here when that's available.
-datadir profile
to the Zotero executable to have it use a 'zotero' directory within the Zotero profile directory, the same as Zotero 4.0 did. (It also takes an absolute path, but that's probably not what you want.)