Closed
Bug 204584
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
location of registry.dat file cannot be changed - file cannot be stored user-independently which inhibits users from seeing all profiles
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 204583
People
(Reporter: hans-juergen.mauser, Assigned: ccarlen)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-DE; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 (CK-UKT-IM2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.3, Mozilla 1.2.1, Netscape 7.01 (all running Windows NT)
In Netscape 4.xx it was possible that every user could see the complete list of
profiles on the system, no matter who was logged in at the moment. Now with
Mozilla, even the _list_ of profiles is user-dependent which causes a lot of
trouble in some cases. For example, if you want (as system administrator) to
convert all the users' profiles at once, you can of course do that, but the list
of profiles can only be seen when _you_ are logged in.
For security reasons, I think it is acceptable that the profile data itself is
stored by default in the user's "home" directory, but it should be possible (as
an option) to make at least the list of profiles available for all users because
this is really needed in some cases (and this problem prevents us here from
switching to Netscape 7.x or Mozilla!)
Or, if this is impossible, there should be an option (for example an environment
variable to specify a directory) to get back the "old" behaviour of Netscape
4.xx to choose a system-wide profile directory for all users. On systems with a
lot of users and not only personal, but also "group" login user-names, such a
solution is really necessary to keep some kind of order in the directories and
to avoid user problems when they want to access their profile both from a
"common" login account and from their "personal" login account.
Please do not start discussions about the importance of the "security" features
like it happens in all the "xxxxxx.slt" bugs and topics. Such decisions should
be allowed to each user - who can be really annoyed if he/she cannot choose, but
instead has to try some odd tricks to enforce the behaviour he wants.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reporter | ||
Comment 1•22 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204583 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•9 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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Description
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