Growl popup send by Growlmail from user X pops up for growl of user Y

[John van Dam]

Hi everyone. I think growl is a great service so I thought I upgrade from the free 1.2 version to the 1.3 version. However since the upgrade I spotted the following "security" issue: 

I use multiple user accounts on my macbook to separate work from home. This means that I sometimes have multiple users active on my macbook. I've noticed that growlmail notifications made from my work-account are sometimes shown by growl in my home-account. 

For me it is only a minor inconvenience since I own all accounts on my macbook, but on a mac workstation which is used by multiple users it is, I think, an issue.

That said, results to repeat the behaviour are mixed. So far it looks like both accounts need to be active and have growl and you must be logged into the user account that recieves the email. The two times I found growlmail messages on the other account it was in the rollup screen. As soon as I have more information on reproducibility I will put it here.

Regards,

John

[Chris Forsythe]

So it could be because of the way that GNTP works, in that it listens on a port and once a port is in use, then that's it. We've reduced the interfaces that Growl will listen on starting in 1.4, so that should help to alleviate this issue. I'd probably consider waiting until 1.4 to work on that reproduction case.

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Chris Forsythe

@The_Tick

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