Content indexing spamming syslog and logging personal information (emails etc) - there should be a way to disable file contents indexing
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tracker (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I recently changed from Ubuntu 15.04, to Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 (I was using Unity, now Gnome Shell), and since I have changed I have noticed some problems similar to this bug report in Tracker's logging to syslog: https:/
So what I am noticing is that it is spamming my syslog with loads and loads of stuff similar to the bug report I linked to above. But not only is it spamming contents there, it is also putting the contents and details of my private emails etc, for instance I have OSSEC HIDS running and it keeps on reporting to me of these sorts of things:
"
OSSEC HIDS Notification. 2015 Jul 22 21:08:46
Received From: Weaponised-
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
--END OF NOTIFICATION
"
And then when I checked my syslog for that time period these are the sorts of things that I saw:
"
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
Jul 22 21:08:44 Weaponised-Towel gnome-session[
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And after some further research I have come to understand that this is mostly happening because there is no way to disable the feature which indexes file contents. So it would be really good if a feature like that could be added, or at least for you to be able to control the logging levels.
Another reason why it would be really good if there was at least an option to turn off content indexing and just have file name indexing is that it can sometimes be really hard to find anything if say you know the file is called "account", however you have very many files on your machine with that word in them. So you will get so many results it may be hard to find what you are actually looking for.
Some users may also want to disable content indexing because of performance issues.
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OS Information:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid
Package Information:
tracker:
Installed: 1.2.5-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 1.2.5-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1.2.5-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Spamming syslog, and logging contents from emails + Spamming syslog, and logging contents from private emails etc |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: vivid |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Spamming syslog, and logging contents from private emails etc + Content indexing spamming syslog and logging personal information + (emails etc) |
Changed in tracker: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in tracker: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
This issue is still present under Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.