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gdm-guest-session package

Apparmor profile includes a redundant locking permission for /var/log/wtmp

Bug #677225 reported by Simon Déziel on 2010-11-18

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm-guest-session

The file /etc/apparmor.d/gdm-guest-session includes a workaround for LP: #258818 but this is no longer needed because the abstraction for wutmp is fixed. The attached patch removes the redundant locking permission for /var/log/wtmp.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gdm-guest-session 0.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34~lucid1-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 18 16:56:37 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm-guest-session

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lp:ubuntu/natty/gdm-guest-session

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote on 2010-11-18:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Remove the redundant locking permission for /var/log/wtmp Edit (363 bytes, text/plain)

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote on 2010-11-18:

This also affects Maverick and Natty.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-03-13:

Thanks! Pushed to bzr.

Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
status:	New → Fix Committed

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-03-14

tags:

added: patch

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-03-15:

This bug was fixed in the package gdm-guest-session - 0.23

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gdm-guest-session (0.23) natty; urgency=low

  * apparmor/gdm-guest-session: Drop obsolete workaround for #253328. Thanks
    Simon Déziel for pointing out. (LP: #677225)
  * apparmor/gdm-guest-session: Restrict /dev/shm, /proc/, and temp dirs to
    "owner". Thanks to Jamie Strandboge for the suggestion! (LP: #673034)
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:08:03 +0100