[rt-users] urgent: disable search for new watchers

[Ken Crocker]

Violetta,


    Why is it a security issue? If your privileges are allowing them to 
go to a user "Preferences", then I understand, but to just know what 
UserIds are on the system doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

Kenn
LBNL

On 6/18/2009 7:28 AM, Violetta J. Wawryk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> RT is 3.6.1 on a debian system
>
> we just found out that in the people section everyone who can login can 
> search for people. So a person who has the following rights:
>
> CreateTicket
> ReplyToTicket
> SeeQueue
> ShowTicket
>
> can go to the people section and do a search like:
>
> userid doesn't contain xyz
>
> he gets all the users of the RT. Since this is a security issue, is 
> there anything that I can do to prevent these searches?
>
> It might be disabled in a newer version, if so which would that be?
>
> A quick search on the list didn't give me an answer, therefore I have to 
> ask this. Sorry if it's been on the list before.
>
> Quick help is really appreciated, thanks in advance!!!!
>
> Regards
> Violetta
>
>