Prevent running as root

Bug #603247 reported by Mathias Brodala
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Exaile
Fix Released
High
Mathias Brodala

Bug Description

One common issue reported by users are related to them accidentally starting Exaile as root user. Since that by itself is potentially dangerous (security issues, bugs, files panel), this should be forbidden.

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Mathias Brodala (mathbr) wrote :

Fixed with r3437 in 0.3.2.x and r3605 in trunk.

Changed in exaile:
assignee: nobody → Mathias Brodala (mathbr)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
visibility: private → public
reacocard (reacocard)
Changed in exaile:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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