121528 - no root permissions on chrome-directory message

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, enhancement)

Description

[Frederic Schreiter]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010923
BuildID:    Mozilla 0.9.4
20010923 

Hi folks! I have got just an improvement for mozilla. As usual I run mozilla as
user without root-permissions. That's why mozilla denied the installing of a new
language-pack. It would be a nice feature if mozilla would ask for the root
password to install the pack anyway and don't let the user install it under the
root account in case that there's only one person working on the PC. 
Just a small improvement for improving the comfort and not a bug, but there is
not a "improvzilla" ;-) 
Greetings from germany....Frederic

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Preferences
2.Choose to Add another Language-Pack
3.See the error message

Actual Results:  I got a message that I hadn't have the rights to write to the
"chrome"-directory.

Expected Results:  WOuld have been cool if it would have asked for the root
password and handled it by itself.

Comment 1

[Roy Yokoyama]

I think this is not i18n feature request.  
over to Installer team

Comment 2

[John Levon]

Sounds very dangerous to me. See comments in the meta-bug...

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting status to New. Module Owner may resolve as WONTFIX.

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Hm, what should Mozilla do with a root password. It would be much safer and
better not to require root priviledges for XPI installation.

pi

Comment 5

[Karel Vervaeke]

Asking for the root password would really Suck Hairy Monkey Balls(TM) - excuse
my foul language. If I want something to be done which requires root privileges
I'd rather do it as root.

IMHO it would be nice if optional stuff went into $HOME/.mozilla
(I don't know how this language pack thingy works, but my suggestion would be
the same for XPI/chrome installs)