** Description changed:

+ Impact:
+ Users are notified of crash files for which they do not have permission to 
read, subsequently they can see odd "permission denied" dialogs which creates 
an unpleasant experience.
+ 
+ Test Case:
+ 1) Login in as a guest user
+ 2) In a terminal run 'xeyes &'
+ 3) Then run 'pkill -11 xeyes'
+ 4) Observe apport crash dialog and click X to close it
+ 5) Switch back to your regular user
+ 6) Observe a crash dialog for a "system crash", enter your password and then 
observe no apport crash dialog.  (The original description indicates a 
permission denied message and this will happen if your user also has a .crash 
file that needs reporting, but that'd be a longer test case.)
+ 
+ Regression Potential:
+ As this changes the upstart job for crash notification's a fair bit its 
possible that some crashes will not be reported.
+ 
+ With the package from -proposed you will not receive a crash dialog for
+ the guest user's crash file.
+ 
  A dialoge message is constantly coming up saying that a problem with
  ubuntu has occured. When I click send details, another error comes up
  saying: This problem report is damaged and cannot be processed.
  
  PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')
  
  No other information is given.

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