99481 - I am getting other accounts priveleges throught the browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 80051

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Kenneth Rawlings]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010912
BuildID:    2001091220

If I first open up Mozilla with root priveleges, and then open up an instance of
the browser under another accounts priveleges, the browser I open up with
another users priveleges has root's configuration AND permissions.  I can
overwrite files with root only priveleges from the browser opened up under the
normal users account.  I can reproduce this with accounts other than root's. 
Whichever account opens up the browser first, all succeeding browser
instantiations under different accounts have the original accounts permissions.
 Yikes!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  'su' to root.
2.  start up mozilla
3.  start up mozilla with another user account
4.  with the browser started up under another user account, proceed to save a
web page over any priveleged file.

Actual Results:  The file I chose to overwrite was successfully overwritten with
root priveleges.

Expected Results:  I shouldn't have been root.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80051 ***