On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:19:31PM -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > For some reason, my Gnome 3 shell process has forked off an 'acroread' > process which I did not start! > > It appears to be attempting to install itself or do something in the > background. This is completely unacceptable, nothing should ever > attempt to download and run some unauthenticated script and should > never attempt to install anything without my explicit knowledge and > permission! > > I consider this to be a security breach and failure of the Fedora > security policies to permit this. In fact there should be a separate > SELinux context for this commercial app just so it can't do anything > to my system without my knowledge. > > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > XXX 2509 2483 0 Jul10 ? 00:00:01 gnome-session > XXX 2615 2509 1 Jul10 ? 00:12:04 /usr/bin/gnome-shell > XXX 16717 2615 0 13:46 ? 00:00:08 acroread > XXX 16769 16717 20 13:46 ? 00:29:25 /bin/sh > /tmp/acrobat.n9vv0T/AdobeReader/INSTALL --lzma=/home/XXX > XXX 7662 16769 0 15:40 ? 00:00:00 [INSTALL] <defunct> > > Does the Gnome shell have some sort of auto-start or auto-update > capability in it, that perhaps Adobe has surreptitiously hooked itself > into. And how do I get it back out? Yes, it does. Run gnome-session-properties and look at the list of applications that will automatically load at session start. > (The only reason I even have Adobe reader is because Evince can not > fully handle the US IRS tax forms.) What I'm failing to see is how this is a failing of Fedora. You installed a non-Fedora package on your system (AdobeReader is not a part of Fedora) and it is that non-Fedora package that appears to be doing things in the background on your system. You can blame the distro for compromising your system when you were the one who circumvented the trusted packages list and installed something else. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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