Bug 104787
| Summary: | Mozilla browser is launched as root even when running redhat-config-printer via consolehelper | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tim Kent <tim> |
| Component: | redhat-config-printer | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-10-03 12:00:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description of problem: Mozilla browser is launched as root even when running redhat-config-printer via consolehelper. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-printer-gui-0.6.47.9-1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Selecting the Printing icon (like many other RedHat configuration utilities) launches /usr/sbin/redhat-config-printer-gui via consolehelper - A wrapper that helps console users run system programs. Browsing the HTML help: (Help > Contents) causes redhat-config-printer-gui to launch Mozilla as root, allowing editing of any file on the system to say the least. Actual results: Mozilla is launched as root. Expected results: I suggest that while redhat-config-printer-gui is run via consolehelper, the helper component is run as the initiating user and not as root. Say for example as a system administrator you choose to allow particular users sudo access to redhat-config-printer-gui, they then have write access to all files. Additional info: