From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Epiphany/0.8.0 Description of problem: When accessing a bug that I don't have enough karma for, like security bugs, the Bugzilla says "You are not authorized to access bug #90940". If possible, it should tell the reason. Now it sounds quite rude to block the user without valid reason. This is a open source project anyway... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: . Additional info:
This is largely done for security issues that was marked by the reporter as private. Many Open Source projects include a security period in which bugs are not disclosed to everyone to avoid premature exploits before they are fixed. In other occasions that bug report is being used to track other sensitive items. Since the nature of discretion isnt known to bugzilla a generic message is being provided