224808 - *nix install: bookmarks overwritten due to permissions change

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 205053

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Rick Cochran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Automatically inviting people to start up Mozilla after installation is a bad
idea.  If they installed it using "sudo", it will change ownership of files in
.mozilla in their home directory to "root".

When I ran Mozilla as me, it couldn't read the bookmarks.  I then stopped
Mozilla and changed the owner to me.  When I ran Mozilla as me again, I found
that the bookmark file had been replaced by an empty one.  Perhaps Mozilla had
not really been stopped.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above.
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Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
Separate the "installation" process from the "first run" process.  At least for
Unix systems?

Detect when euid and home directory don't match and display warning?

I had problems with bookmarks under WinXP also.  The user's entire Mozilla data
directory was saved during the installation, but in the new data, the bookmark
file was replaced by an empty one.

Comment 1

[guanxi]

severity -> critical (dataloss)

clarify summary:
was: My original bookmark.html file got replaced by an empty one.
now: *nix install: bookmarks overwritten due to permissions change

Comment 2

[guanxi]

screwed up summary change

Comment 3

[Alexander Opitz]

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

Comment 4

[Max Alekseyev]

v.