#10301 NORM 10.1.3: Failure to cleanup temporary files

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#10301: Failure to cleanup temporary files
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           Reporter:  erikos   |       Owner:  dsd          
               Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  10.1.3       
          Component:  sugar    |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:           |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  package  |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:           |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:           |  
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Comment(by erikos):

 Replying to [comment:4 greenfeld]:
 > Tested pre-release packages with the following test RPMs:
 > sugar-0.84.22-2.fc11.i586.rpm
 > sugar-artwork-0.84.2-2.fc11.i586.rpm
 > sugar-presence-service-0.84.1-2.fc11.noarch.rpm
 > sugar-toolkit-0.84.12-2.fc11.i586.rpm
 >
 > Sugar was able to clean up both activity as well as nested directories
 of custom-created files from its temporary path as long as they were
 created by the olpc (Sugar UI) user.
 >
 > The patch was not able to clean up files created by root in the
 temporary directory, but I do not think (hope?) most activities run using
 SetUID anyway.

 Sam, thanks for testing.

 How did the files created by the non-olpc user did get there in the first
 place? Did you create them by hand?

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