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This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 10 2019, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the disable-ALL-unneeded-services-by-default dept.

upstart writes:

Submitted via IRC for carny

This Ubuntu 19.10 Bug Shares Your Media Folders Without Warning

A major bug in Ubuntu 19.10 could be automatically sharing the contents of your Pictures, Video and Music folders with other users on the same network.

The problem is caused by Ubuntu’s new media sharing feature (powered [by] the Rygel media server) which is supposed to [be] disabled by default.

But scores of users running Ubuntu 19.10 in a non-GNOME Shell/Ubuntu session report that rygel autostarts on log in, with no warning or indication provided that it is running in the background.

As a result, the full contents of ~/Photos, ~/Videos and ~/Music folders are accessible on local area network, (LAN), i.e, available to anyone and anything else connected to the same Wi-Fi point.

And that’s not good if you live in a house with others, especially with a content discovery device like a smart tv or games console active at the same time you are.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday November 11 2019, @01:07AM (7 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday November 11 2019, @01:07AM (#918772) Homepage

    Stop being salty and start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @01:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @01:13AM (#918775)

    OK... switch to Windows 10. You'll have no more systemd problems.

  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @01:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @01:16AM (#918778)

    start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.

    There ya go [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday November 11 2019, @01:46AM

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday November 11 2019, @01:46AM (#918789) Journal

    Stop being salty and start by suggesting a course of action to the rest of us.

    https://www.freebsd.org/ [freebsd.org]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:34AM (#918800)

    www.devuan.org

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Monday November 11 2019, @05:04AM

    by Arik (4543) on Monday November 11 2019, @05:04AM (#918828) Journal
    http://www.slackware.com/
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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 11 2019, @08:52AM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday November 11 2019, @08:52AM (#918868) Journal

    I use mx linux and alpine, void is still alive, gentoo and slackware too. Packages might have problems, see for example the quite infrastructural ecryptfs being removed from debian because of an issue during logout (maybe the culprit is the butler, alias systemd-logind? my bet is on it) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765854, [debian.org] but it's like in the early days of linux and you are never supposed to use free software peacefully anyway, because of the duopoly software makers/hardware makers.

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  • (Score: 2) by bart on Monday November 11 2019, @11:29AM

    by bart (2844) on Monday November 11 2019, @11:29AM (#918898)

    I've been using Void Linux happily for years on all my computers. Works very well and no systemd. Boot times btw are incredibly fast, and YOU decide what services are running.