Whoopsie

  1. Bug #1351519
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Comment 0 for bug 1351519

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : product_uuid is not world readable

As part of (un)stable whoopsie persistent machine identifier generation /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid is used.

However:
$ ls /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid
-r-------- 1 root root 4096 Aug 2 01:23 /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid

It's not world-readable. Hence API calls to whoopsie_identifier_generate return different results for root and non-root users.

Either whoopsie should stop using product_uuid, or api calls to whoopsie_identifier_generate should be denied and instead one should use whoopsie-preferences which gets the full uuid...