Ubuntu
gdm-guest-session package

Removing Apparmor should not remove the Guest Session feature

Bug #346088 reported by Ryan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

I have compiled a new kernel in Jaunty, and have no interest in using Apparmor, however removing apparmor also tried to remove apparmor-utils (alright), but then gdm-guest-session.

I fail to see how the two are related or why the Guest Session has anything to do with Apparmor.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

That's definately not an Apparmor bug. gdm-guest-session depends on Apparmor to sandbox the guest session and make it secure. I don't think it is a bug that it depends on Apparmor, but perhaps it could be dropped to a recommends

Changed in apparmor (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Ryan (ryan-farmer-personal-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

The worst that happens is that it's a temporary account that has no permissions to write outside of the temporary home folder.

With the standard POSIX security approach, the guest account still should work mainly as intended, and I also think that this could probably be a recommends.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Fixed in bzr.

Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
status: New → Triaged
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gdm-guest-session - 0.9

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gdm-guest-session (0.9) karmic; urgency=low

  * Drop AppArmor to Recommends. (LP: #346088)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:59:50 +0200

Changed in gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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