244579 - No profiles listed when starting Mozilla as another user

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Sergio Del Franco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

In Win2K, when logged as "user-A", start Mozilla with "Run as..." and input
"user-B", if there are mozilla-profiles created in "user-B" windows-profile,
Mozilla Profile Manager opens with an empty profile list.

I don't know if this a Mozilla bug or Windows bug, please confirm.

PD: I think to solve Bug 144712/Bug 150453 is a workaround to this one.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log-in to Windows as user-B
2. Run Mozilla Profile Manager (MPM)
3. Create a new profile, called "user-B". Now there are two mozilla profiles,
"default" and "user-B", whose are displayed in MPM profile list.
4. Log-off from Windows.
5. Log-in to Windows as user-A
6. Right-click Mozilla icon while shift key is pressed. Context menu is open.
7. Choose "Run as..."
8. Input "user-B" as user and his password.
Actual Results:  
Mozilla Profile Manager opens with an empty profile list

Expected Results:  
Mozilla Profile Manager should open showing two profiles, "default" and
"user-B", as when starting from user-B windows-profile

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Check if you use the correct environment. Log in as user-a in win and open a
command prompt (console) with "run as" user-b. Does the environment variable
%APPDATA% point to the correct app-data directory from user-b?

Comment 2

[Sergio Del Franco]

[user-A cmd]
>echo %APPDATA%
E:\Documents and Settings\user-A\Datos de programa

>runas /user:DOMAIN\user-B cmd
Escribir contraseña para DOMAIN\user-B:
Intentando iniciar "cmd" como usuario "DOMAIN\user-B"...

[user-B cmd]
>echo %APPDATA%
%APPDATA%

(Variable not defined...)
[user-A cmd]
>runas /env /user:DOMAIN\user-B cmd
Escribir contraseña para DOMAIN\user-B:
Intentando iniciar "cmd" como usuario "DOMAIN\user-B"...

[user-B cmd]
>echo %APPDATA%
E:\Documents and Settings\user-A\Datos de programa

(It works as expected)
[user-A cmd]
>runas /profile /user:DOMAIN\user-B cmd
Escribir contraseña para DOMAIN\user-B:
Intentando iniciar "cmd" como usuario "DOMAIN\user-B"...

[user-B cmd]
>echo %APPDATA%
%APPDATA%

(Variable not defined... what is the concept of "run as" and "profile" for M$?)

Obviously this is not a bug, but a feature.

... Windows 95: 32-bit extensions to a 16-bit graphical shell for an 8-bit
operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor by a 2-bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
... Windows 2000: ?