Bug 430961 - vpnc-helper doesn't pass arguments
Summary: vpnc-helper doesn't pass arguments
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vpnc
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-30 19:53 UTC by Daniel Malmgren
Modified: 2008-01-30 21:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-30 21:38:52 UTC
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Description Daniel Malmgren 2008-01-30 19:53:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
Noticed that when I run vpnc as an ordinary user it completely ignores all
arguments passed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vpnc-consoleuser-0.5.1-2.fc8

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As an ordinary user, run vpnc with some arguments
  
Actual results:
The arguments are ignored.

Expected results:
Obvious.

Additional info:
Adding a simple $@ to the second line of /usr/sbin/vpnc-helper fixes this. Or is
this somehow a bad idea?
Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2008-01-30 21:38:52 UTC 
Yes, this is actually very bad idea, because you can make to run any script
under root priviledges from regular user account.
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