[Bug 1229616] Re: OS Release notes with clickable links displayed as root

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray) => (unassigned)

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Triaged

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Title:
  OS Release notes with clickable links displayed as root

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [Test Case]
  1) On an Ubuntu 13.04 system run update-manager -d in a terminal
  2) click "Upgrade..." when asked to upgrade
  3) Click the testing url in the release notes dialog
  4) run ps and observe the web browser running as root

  update-manager displays the release notes before performing an
  operating system upgrade. The release notes window is running as the
  root user, and contains clickable links. Clicking on these links
  attempts to run a web browser as the root user. This fails with
  Chromium, which just refuses, and is probably considered unhealthy if
  a less anal web browser is configured as the default.

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.186.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 24 16:04:02 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1380013260'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'852'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'814'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-26 (210 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130225)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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