#7131 HIGH Update.: Activity launching fails when rainbow's spool and /etc/passwd are out of sync.

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#7131: Activity launching fails when rainbow's spool and /etc/passwd are out of
sync.
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  Reporter:  mstone    |       Owner:  mstone          
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new             
  Priority:  high      |   Milestone:  Update.2 (8.2.0)
 Component:  security  |     Version:                  
Resolution:            |    Keywords:                  
  Verified:  0         |    Blocking:                  
 Blockedby:            |  
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Old description:

> Ben Schwartz found this issue by launching some activities, deleting
> /home/olpc/isolation, and restarting rainbow. The resulting traceback is
> attached. How should we fix this bug?
>
> (Rainbow's spool format and usage are described at
> [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Taste_the_Rainbow].)
>
> This was tested with rainbow-0.7.10 in update.1-706.

New description:

 Seems like we could get most of the way there

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Comment(by mstone):

 Seems like we could get most of the way there by scanning /etc/passwd and
 /etc/group on startup.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7131#comment:1>
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