Bug 217332 - gnome-session shouldn't set http_proxy environment variable if proxy requires password
Summary: gnome-session shouldn't set http_proxy environment variable if proxy requires...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-session
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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Blocks: 216686 217333
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Reported: 2006-11-27 05:22 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-04-02 18:59:39 UTC
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Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-11-27 05:22:18 UTC 
It was pointed out here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84315

that it's a bit of a security issue to automatically store the user's proxy
password in an environment variables.

Also, it was pointed out there that the code to do it was doing it wrong anyway.
 We should just drop the code.
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-04-02 18:59:39 UTC 
we dropped the code.
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