Bug 372183

Summary:	Encrypted messages show up in ~/.xsession-errors
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	quazgar <quazgar>
Component:	OTR Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	major	CC:	pali.rohar
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description quazgar 2016-11-07 14:35:39 UTC

Kopete outputs all received and sent messages to the output, which on Linux desktops is by default captured in ~/.xsession-errors and thus logged more or less permanently:

...
kopete(10161) squashMessage: "*secret text*"
kopete(10161) squashMessage: "*secret text*"
kopete(10161) squashMessage: "*secret text*"
...

This happens even in OTR protected communication, where messages by default should not be logged.

The OTR plugin should suppress the printing of these messages or at least make only a placeholder text show up.

Comment 1 Pali Rohár 2016-11-22 00:16:38 UTC

Those are just debug output outputs for area 14000 (Kopete). You can enable/disable debug output in program kdebugdialog.

IIRC it is configured in kdebugrc config file and Linux distributions provides its own config files. If you have enabled those debug outputs for Kopete by default (verify via kdebugdialog), then please report this problem to your Linux distribution.

Closing now as downstream.