[Bug 1000268] Re: please consider letting non-admins create ubuntu installation USB stick

2012-05-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Sorry to ask again but is there some specific area of code that you'd like to be reviewed more carefully? I think I found at least a few security bugs. For example it does not check that the file that the user wants to write to the USB stick is actually something that the user can normally access.

[Bug 1000268] Re: please consider letting non-admins create ubuntu installation USB stick

2012-05-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
The code at least tries to check if the drive is marked as "device-is- system-internal" by udisks and aborts if that is the case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000268 Title: please

[Bug 1000268] Re: please consider letting non-admins create ubuntu installation USB stick

2012-05-16 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
auth_admin_keep is set, because the application is formatting drives / installing a bootloader into mbr. There is a potential for data loss & rendering your system unbootable. I need to check if we can relax policy, without causing dataloss. ** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu) Status: Conf

[Bug 1000268] Re: please consider letting non-admins create ubuntu installation USB stick

2012-05-16 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000268 Title: