[Bug 60705] bugs when multiple users are logged into same machine ....

[nomoreheroes]

Public bug reported:


When more than one user logs into a computer, and automated events ( started due to a dbus/hal event ) occour, the program that starts automatically starts in the wrong user's x session.

For example:

1. I burn a dvd using growisofs, it finishes and the dvd gets
automatically ejected and re-inserted. When totem starts up
automatically due to it being a video dvd it does so on a different
user's gnome desktop instead of mine.

2. I plug in a digital camera and a program is configured to
automatically start, but it does so in the wrong user's gnome desktop.
The media card is also assigned to that user so I cannot even manually
open and delete photos I want. It's not even possible to import the
photos because the other user has full permissions whereas I have none.

This is a BIG bug in a house where more than one person share the use of
the same computer but use different logins and don't want to keep
logging in and out to swap over.

The solution is for the computer to be aware of the user who currently
has the active x session locally and assume that is the user who has
initiated the event.

This is, potentially at least, a security vuln as user might not want
the other user to see what they might see as a result. Imagine a usb
stick being inserted with sensitive data and another active user being
logged in remotely .... "oooo what's on that usb disk, let's take a
look", and there goes the privicy and security of that data.

** Affects: gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Needs Info

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bugs when multiple users are logged into same machine ....
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60705