permissions granting issue

Bug #59018 reported by Florent Mertens
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Step to reproduce :

- Create a new user with users-admin
- Be sure that all user-privilege are uncheck
- Logout and login with this new user
- Look at system>admin, you are able to use
networks-admin, users-admin, share-admin.
I don't think that an non admin user should be able to use those
tool, but why not.
- More important, launch users-admin and try to
change the password of an admin user. That works.

I think that the user privilege setting is broken. At least
the 'Administer the system' one (others seems to work).
It remove some privilege, but not all.

Thanks.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

This upload fixes the issue:

 system-tools-backends (1.9.5.1-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - Fix typo in DBus policy file, now the group defined in
       --with-stb-group will be really able to access the backends.
     - Cache the detected platform
 .
 system-tools-backends (1.9.5-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - Limit access to the backends to root and people defined
       with --with-stb-group (Ubuntu: #59018)
   * debian/rules:
     - use "--with-stb-group=admin" configure option

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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