238367 - no normal user can import pks certificate (need to be root)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[nicola]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

i have certificate from my bank. i can import it only whit 'root' user (and work
fine) but a simple user can't import the pks certificate

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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when i open the certifcate manager and choose import the 'open' button is not
active and don't change if i select the certificate file on the floppy. 
i try mount with read-only and read-write but the result is the same.
i try to logon into the security device before import but is the same.
with the 'root' user the import is quiet and follow your documentation.
Note i use this certificate with mozilla 1.3 to about one week ago.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Wouldn't it be a different issue that the open button is disabled here?

Comment 2

[nicola]

I test on two computers: 
on RHL 8.0A all work fine (THE BUG IS NOT VERIFIED) 
on Mandrake 9.1 the bug is verified 
 
I try to delete the directory .mozilla in home directory and restart 
mozilla; the bug is the same 
 
 

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> PSM

Comment 4

[John G. Myers]

The file picker is common code, not PSM specific.  If the open button is
disabled, then there is a good chance the file is not readable.  Likely INVALID,
but there is some possibility that something about the file's being on the
floppy is confusing the file picker.

--> file picker

Comment 5

[timeless]

he didn't say that it was always on a floppy, only that it didn't change when it
was.

i suspect the file is being imported into the mozilla binary tree instead of the
profile directory.

perhaps
./run-mozilla.sh `which strace` -f ./mozilla-bin |grep '.db'

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