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Bug 137784 - Temp file warnings for usernames with hyphens
Temp file warnings for usernames with hyphens
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152659
Product: ORBit2
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: ORBit maintainers
ORBit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-20 19:20 UTC by kale4272
Modified: 2006-10-22 14:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description kale4272 2004-03-20 19:20:32 UTC 
Given two users: spk and spk-p orbit tries to open the other's temp dir
resulting in the warning:

** (eog:9037): WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-spk-p is not the current user

This seems to be caused by the way temp dirs are constructed:

$TEMP_DIR/otbit-$USER-$RANDOM

I noticed this first when constructing an LFS system following the BLFS CVS
guide using ORBit2 2.8.3.  This was also observed on RedHat 9.0 using
ORBit2 2.6.0-2.

Doesn't create any observable problems (except scrolling lots of warnings
to the console) so I set this as minor.  However, possible security risk??
Comment 1 Danilo Piazzalunga 2005-09-01 13:54:40 UTC 
Further comment and a proposed solution is discussed at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152659, which addresses a more general
case.
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2006-10-22 14:06:45 UTC 
Marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152659 ***