Bug 183360

Summary: beagle-crawl-system
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro>
Component: beagleAssignee: Alexander Larsson <alexl>
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invoke beagle using su through /bin/bash shell none

Description Felipe Alfaro Solana 2006-02-28 16:53:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

beagle-0.2.1-12 includes a cron task intended to crawl contents from several system-wide locations, 
like documentation files and applications shortcuts. This cron task is implemented by the /usr/libexec/
beagle-crawl-system sh script.

Since beagle refuses to run as root, this crawling task is ran as user beagleindex, storing the indexes 
under /var/cache/beagle/indexes. The problem is that beagle-crawl-system runs as root and invokes 
beagle through su to impersonate beagleindex user. However, since the beagleindex user has no shell, 
the invocation to beable fails.

I have attached a patch to impersonate the beagleindex user and invoking beagle using /bin/bash.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
beagle-0.2.1-12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As root, launch /usr/libexec/beagle-crawl-system
2. Nothing will happen
3.
  
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Comment 1 Felipe Alfaro Solana 2006-02-28 16:53:07 UTC 
Created attachment 125406 [details]
invoke beagle using su through /bin/bash shell
Comment 2 Christopher Aillon 2006-03-01 06:15:07 UTC 
Filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332955
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2006-03-01 18:21:57 UTC 
fixed in 0.2.1-13