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emarkay
April 5th, 2010, 05:30 PM
"Your gdm log files may help developers diagnose the bug, but may contain sensitive information. Do you want to include these logs in your bug report?"

Never saw this before; notified while Apport-ing a FGLRX issue.

My var/log/gdm (when accessed via a gksudo Nautilus) shows:
"slave", "greeter" and "log" and "failsafe" logs .

Other than username and a hardware list, what is considered "Sensitive"?

Thanks.

cariboo907
April 5th, 2010, 05:54 PM
The username could be considered "sensitive information" as in my case my username is different from the name that is displayed in gdm.

emarkay
April 5th, 2010, 06:30 PM
The username could be considered "sensitive information" as in my case my username is different from the name that is displayed in gdm.

Yes, kudos to the Developers for that notice. Thanks!