id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc 1389 deegree starts firefox in sudo, taking ownership of .mozilla profile hamish live-demo@… "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""" defect closed critical OSGeoLive8.0 OSGeoLive fixed deegree