212447 - Using sudo with 1.4 results in loss of bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205053

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryan Gammon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030704 Debian/1.4-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030704 Debian/1.4-1

sudo is a unix/linux utility that will run a program with root priviledges. 

In terms of mozilla, this is handy for installing new system-wide components.

sudo worked well with previous versions of mozilla, but using it with 1.4
results in loss of bookmarks.

I'm using sudo with the follwoing change to /etc/sudoers:
# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
ryan    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start mozilla with "sudo mozilla" (root priviledges)
2.Exit
3.Start mozilla with "mozilla"

Actual Results:  
Bookmarks have disappeared, bookmarks.html in the profile directory contains an
empty bookmark-file skeleton

Expected Results:  
Bookmarks should not have been affected.

It's a serious bug, but it has an obvious solution: don't use sudo.

Comment 1

[Prognathous]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205053 ***