ProcMaps.txt may contain private information such as username

[Fred .]

Then someone with a basic knowledge of regular expressions should
write the regex. I don't think a regex would cause us any problems.

/^\/home\/(\w+)\/

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Fred . <eldmannen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not all potential PII can, should or ought to be removed. But I do
>> think that the $USER and $HOSTNAME should definitely without a doubt
>> be scrubbed.
>>
>> Why should $USER and $HOSTNAME not be automatically scrubbed?
>
> Any automatic scrubbing of pre-defined strings can have funny
> consequences, as this example shows:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/01/186216/war-and-nookd-ebook-regex-gone-haywire
>
> I will imagine my submitted logs would look funny if such a feature
> existed, since I usually use short usernames on my systems, such as
> "go" (my initials).
>
> One way to make it easier for people who are worried about the logs
> leaking information that they consider private (but most other don't),
> would be to have an option to set a bug report to private initially.
> Then the submitter can look through and remove/edit files that they do
> not want to make public.
>
> Geir Ove