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  1. Bug #893821
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 893821

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Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote : Re: [Bug 893821] Re: Shell expansion may allow privilege boundary crossing

On 2011-12-09 09:27:50, Ganton wrote:
> For more information:
> The "cat /proc/[...]/environ" method that is used now there... is said to cause problems:
> - "you have multiple hosts"
> - "when more than one X session is used"
> - etc.

That's a good point. However, this was strictly a security update that
focused on preventing powerbtn.sh from being fooled into executing code
provided by another user.

Completely changing how the DBUS session bus address is retrieved in all
of the ACPI scripts was outside of the scope for this update. You may
want to consider opening a separate bug for the issue you raised.