Comment 14 for bug 262193

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Guilherme Salgado (salgado) wrote : Re: [Bug 262193] Re: new location code allows anyone to set anyone else's location

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 21:58 +0000, Matt Layman wrote:
> Guilherme, the user was Paul Hummer (https://launchpad.net/~rockstar),
> someone I work with on the Entertainer Media Center. It looks like I
> could still edit his location if I wanted to, but I did notice that
> yours is not editable.
>

> Maybe someone else set Paul's location and I just thought that he set it
> himself. I guess there could be other reasons too. Paul and I are on

That's correct; you can set Paul's location because it was not Paul
himself who's set his. If he'd set his location like I did for myself,
you'd not be able to change it.

> some of the same teams. Paul is also on some lp teams and is a Canonical
> employee so maybe his account has different access (but I'm totally
> guessing about that).
>

That's not the case.