Guest account is created/destroyed each time it is selected/deselected on the list
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity-greeter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Team | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Team |
Bug Description
The Guest Account and its associated chroot (/tmp/guest-
A user can easily DOS a system from the login screen with up/down arrows.
TEST CASE:
1. With Unity Greeter enabled, press Down to select 'Guest Account'
-> Switch to a console and verify that a directory named /tmp/guest-
2. Switch back to lightdm
3. Quickly press Up/Down for a few seconds to switch between the Guest Account and another entry
-> Switch to a console and count the number of ck-history process
$ pgrep ck-history| wc -l
The number increase really quickly to the point the system becomes unusable.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-greeter 0.0.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 25 23:58:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110209)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Could you try if that's still an issue with the new version?