Bug 1168494 - [rfe] make it easier to exclude a problem item from reporting
Summary: [rfe] make it easier to exclude a problem item from reporting
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libreport
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: abrt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-27 06:43 UTC by Jakub Filak
Modified: 2016-12-01 00:47 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libreport-2.5.0-1.fc23
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Last Closed: 2015-03-18 09:50:41 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jakub Filak 2014-11-27 06:43:08 UTC
Description of problem:
libreport allows users to put a problem item (e.g. environ) on the list of items excluded from reporting, but the current implementation is extremely non-user friendly. The list is stored in an event XML configuration file in /usr/share/libreport/events/ directory (man report_event.conf /exclude-items). So, it is almost impossible for a user to extend the list, if he knows that a certain problem item will always contain security sensitive information.

Hence libreport shall allow users to comfortably extend the list of excluded items in system-wide way and per-user way.

Note: Users can exclude any problem item in the GUI right before publishing the data. This report is about making this action automatic.

Comment 1 Jakub Filak 2015-02-20 08:01:42 UTC
Upstream commit https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/be51e81fa50649fc0f8612d4f7f522ce0fbb2f11 fixes this bug.

A new configuration option AlwaysExcludedElements holding a list of excluded elements has been introduced. If you want to exclude environment variables from bug reports, put 'environ' on that list in /etc/libreport/libreport.conf or ~/.config/abrt/settings/libreport.conf


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