Package: cgmail
Version: 0.6.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
cgmail refuses to do anything if the environment variable USERNAME is not set.
This is, however, not always the case. See also bug #265593. The problem could
be solved temporary by the user, by doing an export USERNAME=user, but a more
portable solution should be implemented. The attached patch uses Python
os.getuid to this end.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cgmail depends on:
ii gconf2 2.32.3-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-dbus 0.84.0-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii python-feedparser 5.0.1-1 Universal Feed Parser for Python
ii python-gconf 2.28.1-2 Python bindings for the GConf conf
ii python-gnome2 2.28.1-2 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python-gnomekeyring 2.30.2-1 Python bindings for the GNOME keyr
ii python-gobject 2.28.4-1 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii python-gst0.10 0.10.21-2+b1 generic media-playing framework (P
ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-notify 0.1.1-2+b3 Python bindings for libnotify
ii python-support 1.0.13 automated rebuilding support for P
ii python-wnck 2.30.2-1 Python bindings for the WNCK libra
ii python-xdg 0.19-3 Python library to access freedeskt
cgmail recommends no packages.
cgmail suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- /usr/share/cgmail/cGmail/service/mainloop.py~ 2010-07-09 17:51:23.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/cgmail/cGmail/service/mainloop.py 2011-06-07 09:54:17.519717716 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
sys.exit(1)
#This is seriously Eww...
import os
-if os.environ["USERNAME"] == "root":
+if os.getuid() == 0:
import sys
msg = _("cGmail cannot be run as root user, please launch it \
using your normal user access.")
