Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 82324
mozilla-xremote-client ran as root targets non-root mozillas
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:50:11 EDT
Description of problem: When mozilla-xremote-client is ran as root and a mozilla process owned by a non-root user exists, it will be incorrectly targeted Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.2.1-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run `mozilla` as a normal user 2. Run `mozilla` as root Actual Results: The opened window belongs to a process belonging to the normal user Expected Results: The opened window should belong to a process owned by root
Mozilla should figure out the name of the profile being used using the LOGNAME env variable. Is LOGNAME different for root and your username? Also, is the user set on the window? Run this command and click on the mozilla window: _MOZILLA_USER(STRING) = "blizzard" _MOZILLA_VERSION(STRING) = "5.0"
LOGNAME is the same because I used `su` to become root and it does not change LOGNAME. Why is the login name being used rather than the euid? This causes the execution of `mozilla` to differently depending on whether there is already another instance: in there is, it will be run with the login user privilege, and otherwise with the euid ones (root in this case). Imho this should be changed.
Because two people on two seperate systems can have the same logical name but two different UIDs. There are UID mapping daemons that do this. LOGNAME is actually more reliable.
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