229619 - Installer running with root permission starts Mozilla causing change of bookmarks.html owner to root and loss of bookmarks upon Mozilla restart

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 205053

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Max Alekseyev]

Mozilla Linux build 2003122707

To reproduce:
1. Have the only user account with current Mozilla
2. Download and unpack a new full-installer version to some directory
3. Run ``sudo ./mozilla-installer'' for system-wide update of Mozilla
4. After finishing installation Installer will silently run Mozilla with root
permission
5. Exit Mozilla
6. Look at your profile directory and observe that bookmarks.html now has
permissions
-rw-------    1 root     root
7. Run Mozilla as a normal user
8. Mozilla is unable to read bookmarks.html but somehow it overwrites
bookmarks.html with default bookmarks causing DATALOSS

There is a separate issue about overwriting of bookmarks.html with permissions
-rw-------    1 root     root
I'm going to file a separate bug for that.

As of Installer, I think it should not run Mozilla with root permissions.

Comment 1

[Max Alekseyev]

Related bug 229621 

Comment 2

[Alexander Opitz]

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

Comment 3

[Max Alekseyev]

v.