202669 - nppdf.so doesn't work if mozilla is started via ssh/X-forwarding

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Plugins Graveyard :: PDF (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Carsten Balleier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

The nppdf.so is not launched when klicking on a pdf-link (the web page is
arbitray) if mozilla has been started via ssh -f on a remote machine. Doesn't
seem to be Adobe's fault (works with netscape).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh -f anycomputer /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla (or appropriate directory)
2. load webpage with pdf-links
3. try to load pdf-file

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
nppdf.so should handle the pdf file

This also happens with older mozilla versions.
This doesn't happen when one logs in to anycomputer and starts mozilla from the
prompt (error in run-mozilla.sh ?).

Comment 1

[Mitch]

nppdf.so plugin from what version of adobe 4.0 or 5.0 ?

Works perferctly fine for me on Linux over a ssh session with
mozilla cvs 20030418 and nppdf.so version 5.0

Comment 2

[Carsten Balleier]

for the first time i've got a visible error message:
500 Cannot exec acroread or acroexch, errno=2.

and that gave the answer: the PATH is only correctly set up if a login shell is
started, therefore it's an sshd-config issue.

sorry for that.