Signon shows up as Safari
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| signon-ui (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Signon UI popped up and asked me to log into Google. After logging in, Google immediately sent me a message asking whether I logged in as Safari, with my public IP (so I have no reason to think it was anyone but me). Is signon-ui spoofing as safari?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: signon-ui 0.17+16.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Feb 6 22:41:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-26 (1594 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: signon-ui
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-01-23 (13 days ago)
| Shaun Crampton (fasaxc) wrote | #1 |
| Alberto Mardegan (mardy) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in signon-ui (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
We are not trying to pretend that we are Safari :-)
But it looks like for some reason our User-Agent string is interpreted by Google as being from Safari. This is actually a fault in Google's servers, but I'll keep this bug open because we might want to find another User-Agent string as a workaround.