I recently modified apport so JournalErrors.txt actually consists of errors and not also warnings and I believe that resolves this specific issue although we could do a better job of searching for and replacing user home directory names.
apport (2.20.8-0ubuntu9) bionic; urgency=medium * data/general-hooks/generic.py: change JournalErrors to contain errors not warnings. (LP: #1738581) ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1739532 Title: apport-collect SHOULD prune out /home/%USER/ from JournalErrors Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: During https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- shell/+bug/1739525, I ran apport-collect. I was happy to see that my hostname from the system logs was pruned to "hostname". Great! However, there are some logs that complain about /home/FOO user ... we SHOULD NOT leak a user's $HOME directory contents (a potential list of local user accounts) into these reports. This MAY be considered as sensitive information. The JournalErrors.txt should prune it. Example of CULPRITS: {{{ Dec 20 21:39:20 hostname com.ubuntu.OneConf[3069]: WARNING:oneconf.hosts:Error in loading other_hosts file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/FOO/.cache/oneconf/1dfe6d2e52223c637c7bddd900000002/other_hosts' Dec 20 21:39:33 hostname com.ubuntu.OneConf[18688]: WARNING:oneconf.hosts:Error in loading other_hosts file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/BAR/.cache/oneconf/1dfe6d2e52223c637c7bddd900000002/other_hosts' }}} The suggestion here, is simply to also prune out usernames from ANY "/home/%USER" or "~%USER" type regexes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1739532/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp