deegree starts firefox in sudo, taking ownership of .mozilla profile

[hamish]

Hi,

the degree start icon runs ~/bin/launch_assist.sh, which stars the server in sudo.

the script then starts 'firefox -new-tab', as root, which has a couple effects:

• if firefox is already running, you get an error that it it's already running.

• if firefox wasn't already running, it starts, but then root owns various profile files in ~user/.mozilla/, and the regular user can no longer start firefox.

Shame on firefox for writing root's stuff to ~user/ and not /root/.mozilla, maybe the work-around is to edit deegree_start.sh to "sudo -u user" firefox? seems a bit like going in circles.

thanks, Hamish

ps- "export FOO=bar" is a bashism, should replace with "FOO=bar; export FOO"

[hamish]

try for a fix in r11865.

Hamish

[kalxas]

confirmed fixed in build [11868]