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Bug 304578 - help -> online users manual starts browser as root
help -> online users manual starts browser as root
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 163377
Product: firestarter
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Tomas Junnonen
Tomas Junnonen
Depends on:
Blocks: 338159
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-17 20:54 UTC by sam tygier
Modified: 2006-04-12 21:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description sam tygier 2005-05-17 20:54:01 UTC 
Its not really a good idea to run any browser as root, but as firestarter runs
as root, this seems the default.

root must be able to start a process as another user, could firestarter work out
whos logged in to X?

Other information:
this is with version 1.0.1, on ubuntu hoary.
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni 2005-12-02 02:12:07 UTC 
This was reported as bug 163377
Comment 2 sam tygier 2006-04-12 21:26:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163377 ***