** Also affects: udev (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: udisks (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: upower (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: consolekit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-system-service (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: modemmanager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401107
Title:
Software runs as root
Status in “accountsservice” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “acpid” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “bluez” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “cron” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “devicekit” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “devicekit-disks” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “devicekit-power” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “dhcp3” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “modemmanager” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-system-service” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “upower” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “wpasupplicant” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
Software runs as root.
This is bad, it should not run as a superuser, it is dangerous in terms of
system security. This is unsafe.
It should safely run as a non-privileged user.
Following the principle of least privilege.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
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