Local policy control in ImageMagick

Question

In ImageMagick, is there any way to control policy locally? Something like ~/.imagemagick/policy.xml.

Update:

$ dpkg -l imagemagick
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  imagemagick    8:6.8.9.9-7u amd64        image manipulation programs -- bi

$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2018-09-28 http://www.imagemagick.org

Answer 1

ImageMagick v6 & v7 looks for all files in ~/.config/ImageMagick/ in addition to /etc.

This includes policy.xml, although I'm not sure what order the policy directives are processed in.

(ImageMagick v6 also used ~/.magick/, but this is an obsolete location removed from v7.)

To determine what files a program might be looking for, you can use strace:

strace -e file display test.png |& grep policy.xml