Comment 23 for bug 42759

Dear Dave,

so not to cloud the launchpad bug report with our conversation I
decided to mail you directly. I hope that is ok.

In any case, what I mean with SOMEONE fix the problem is that someone
from Canonical or at least someone involved in maintaining Firestarter
should fix this problem.

As far as your fix is concerned, why not try the supplied script in
the bugreport and place it as 50firestarter (make it executable) in
the dispatcher.d directory of NetworkManager. That script will not be
replaced by an update, at least I doubt it and if it will then it will
most defenitely be replaced by something that is also trying to fix
this issue so no harm can come from that. Whilst when firestarter is
updated, the firestarter script might be updated and thus your edited
version might be replaced. The problem most likely will reappear. With
the dispatcher script I assume it works for wireless connections as
well.

I would say, just give it a go.

Cheers,

Alex.

2007/5/16, dave s <email address hidden>:
> I have to admit I had not thought of an update silently killing my
> hack :) - In my books this is a VERY serious flaw and would have
> thought it was #1 priority to be fixed. I only discovered I was
> unprotected by accident & was not best pleased.
>
> I am a very green bug fixer, just setting up a KDE4 dev environment. I
> don't know about packaging or I would have a go myself.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 15/05/07, Azalin <email address hidden> wrote:
> > @dave s: you migth run into problems again when firestarter is updated
> > ... the script you edited migth be replaced... isn't better to add a
> > script like mentioned above to dispatcher of NetworkManager?
> >
> > This problem indeed still persists in Feisty Fawn by the way... I urge
> > SOMEONE to do something about it because this is real security issue!
> >
> > --
> > Firestarter init fails on system boot when NetworkManager is used
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42759
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> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
> --
>
> The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.
>
> -- C.A.R. Hoare
>
> --
> Firestarter init fails on system boot when NetworkManager is used
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42759
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