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Bug 652215 - Running an administrative app as a normal user kills the user's a11y session
Running an administrative app as a normal user kills the user's a11y session
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: at-spi
Classification: Platform
Component: at-spi2-core
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Li Yuan
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-06-09 17:07 UTC by Mike Gorse
Modified: 2011-06-09 17:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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Patch. (2.74 KB, patch)
2011-06-09 17:07 UTC, Mike Gorse 		none Details | Review

Description Mike Gorse 2011-06-09 17:07:03 UTC 
Created attachment 189570 [details] [review]
Patch.

If a normal user starts a session and subsequently runs a program as root, the X property specifying the accessibility bus address may be gone, causing at-spi-bus-launcher to run, since the root user has a different session bus address.
Comment 1 Mike Gorse 2011-06-09 17:09:15 UTC 
Committed in master (72b5b57)