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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #234835
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 234835

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othrayte (othrayte) wrote : Re: almost at the end of installation

>I disagree. the fact that you can explain exactly how "properly behaving" programs end up doing something unexpected when combined, does not mean that it isn't a bug.

>In this case, "it crashes" is definitively unwanted behavior, and whatever-it-takes should be done to prevent the end user getting confronted with this situation. (several decades ago, there was this daemon that would send "you have mail" messages to the logged in users. The mailer was supposed to send it the tty where the user was logged in, and the subject of the Email. unprivileged users could link /etc/passwd to /tmp/a and then send it: tty: ../tmp/a (8 chars max) and subject: bla\nmyroot::0:0::/:/bin/sh which worked exactly as specified in the manual....)

Yeah, got a bit ahead of myself there, upon further reflection it is clearly a bug.
Now I'm just disputing the fact that it (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/493479) is a duplicate of this bug :).

Abd thanks for keeping me in check.