Re: Private Bugzilla bugs

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> The UID can actually matter. We have a frequently reported non-bug that 
> graphical KDE applications will not work (and abort with a qFatal, which 
> fires the SIGABRT signal) if you run them under tools like su or sudo 
> because they won't find some resources (usually the D-Bus session service, 
> sometimes the DISPLAY environment variable for the X display is also lost). 
> Even the upstream crash handler DrKonqi will then crash, because it is also 
> a graphical KDE application and runs in the same context, so even if KCrash 
> is enabled and starts DrKonqi, we still end up with an ABRT report. UID=0 is 
> a telltale sign that it is likely this issue again, at least it raises a red 
> flag. (The proper way to run KDE applications as root is to run them under 
> kdesu.)

So actually you're not looking for the UID but whether the application ran as root. That's enough info and I'm Ok with that.
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