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firestarter package

[Dapper] Firestarter is in System > Administration menu, even for non admin users

Bug #42452 reported by Lionel Le Folgoc
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firestarter (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

Dapper : firestarter 1.0.3-1.1ubuntu2

Firestarter is in System > Administration menu, even for someone not allowed to run administration tasks. So trying to launch the firewall from the menu results in an error :
"Unable to launch firestarter
The underlying authorization mecanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator."

It needs a fix for /usr/share/applications/firestarter.desktop. For example :
--- firestarter.desktop.old 2006-05-01 21:35:00.000000000 +0200
+++ firestarter.desktop.new 2006-05-01 21:37:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -49,6 +49,6 @@
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
 StartupNotify=true
-Categories=System;Settings;Network;
+Categories=GNOME;Application;System;Settings;
 X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
 X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=firestarter

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

also see Bug #42501

Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar)
Changed in firestarter:
assignee: nobody → motu
Revision history for this message
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Fixed in edgy.
The file /usr/share/applications/firestarter.desktop contains :
Categories=GNOME;Application;System;Settings;

Can someone confirm and then close this bug and also Bug #42501 ?

Revision history for this message
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

I checked changelog:
[...]
firestarter (1.0.3-1.2ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low

  * Add "GNOME" to .desktop Categories (closes Ubuntu #42452, #42501)
  * Don't run browser as root (closes Ubuntu #569)

 -- Vassilis Pandis <email address hidden> Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:31:15 +0300
[...]

Changed in firestarter:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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