ProcMaps.txt may contain private information such as username

[Claudio Moretti]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Fred . <eldmannen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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+)\/
>

That does not solve the problem about replacing usernames such as "go"..
The regex would replace the word even in places where it's not supposed to
be removed (A stacktrace with the "go" word in it?).

Even though I don't think this privacy issue is this big, what about
allowing the user to temporarily replace his/hers username and hostname
with pre-defined variables? Apport might replace $USER and $HOSTNAME
temporarily, if the user wants to. (I'm not really sure this is entirely
possible, but I was thinking about launching apport as
$: USER=<user_choice> HOSTNAME=<user_choice> apport

or exporting the two variables and then resetting it to the correct ones..
I don't really know, though, because it might cause trouble in name
resolution because of /etc/hosts
)

Cheers,
Claudio
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