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Author christian.heimes
Recipients Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, asvetlov, christian.heimes, gpolo, mark.dickinson, pitrou, skrah, terry.reedy, zach.ware
Date 2012-11-02.18:37:26
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It's gonna take a while to read this ticket ...

Some comments:
The code in site.py already does some checks, for example getuid() == geteuid(). System code and code that is run with administrator privileges shall be run with -Es to prevent code injection. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/938869 comment #24 for an issue.
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2012-11-02 18:37:26christian.heimessetrecipients: + christian.heimes, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, pitrou, gpolo, Arfrever, asvetlov, skrah, Ramchandra Apte, zach.ware
2012-11-02 18:37:26christian.heimessetmessageid: <1351881446.84.0.194191760196.issue16248@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-11-02 18:37:26christian.heimeslinkissue16248 messages
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