Bug 71651

Summary: exit command resolves to previous user, even root, allowing root access by others
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Wray Hammer <whammer>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description Wray Hammer 2004-01-02 07:38:26 UTC 
Version:           1,2,1 (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
Compiler:          used Mandrake 9.1 install disks and all security, bug, and normal updates 1 January 2004 

I logged in to KDE as user, opened Konsole, su'ed to root, later used command 'su wray' to return to my user login. When I tried to close Konsole with command 'exit', I was returned to the root account--if I had walked away and someone mean came by, he could become root with exit command.  Tried exit again and it returned me to user (wray) account.  Now I know 'exit' exits the account if you su'ed, and exits Konsole only if no su performed.
Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2004-01-02 09:22:09 UTC 
User errors cannot be fixed in program source code.