30277 - Users cannot update bookmarks in Win2K NTFS installs.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6464

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Kevin Berkheiser]

Windows 2000 has more restrictive default NTFS permissions than did Windows NT4.

The Mozilla M14 Installer is not updating the NTFS permissions so that normal 
domain users can save changes to their Mozilla User Profile.

If administrators were to grant their users "Power User" level of access, this 
would not be a problem.  But most administrators I know will not do that.  They 
would rather use IE and have a more secure network.

There are probably not many Win2K users that will run the Beta of Mozilla.  
Probably not enough to justify making this a beta1 bug, but it should be a beta2 
bug (if there is a beta 2).

I tested this on a system installed with Windows 2K Professional, not on a 
system upgraded from NT4.  I don't know if the Win2K installer will reset the 
permissions on a system it is upgrading.  Therefore you may only be able to 
duplicate this problem on non-upgrade instalations of Win2K.

Please modify the Win32 installer to properly set NTFS permissions in Win2K.

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

I'll see what I can do.  Cc:ing selmer in case the profile manager is still 
creating the users50 folder.  Profile Manager would also need to set the correct 
permissions.

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

Yes, profile manager needs to worry about this too.  Probably needs another 
bug...

Comment 3

[Sean Su]

mass change to M16

Comment 4

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Definitely want to fix beta before final release.
But would not hold beta2 for this.  Putting on nsbeta3 radar.

Comment 5

[Sean Su]

this looks like a duplicate of bug #6464 in which the profile manager should be 
using the Os's default user area, not create it's own.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6464 ***

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

ok