Bug 79822 - Acroread's "userFrontEndProgram" flag doesn't work
Summary: Acroread's "userFrontEndProgram" flag doesn't work
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: plugger
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-17 03:49 UTC by Dmitry Bolkhovityanov
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-12-17 15:32:16 UTC
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Description Dmitry Bolkhovityanov 2002-12-17 03:49:08 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203

Description of problem:
The /etc/pluggerrc contains 

-xrm '*userFrontEndProgram: FALSE' 

in the acroread command line.  However, with at least acroread-4.05 this flag
doesn't work.

Changing this to "+useFrontEndProgram" (see "acroread -helpall") does the job.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Give two users (let them be "bill" and "bob") access to the display.
2. Open acroread under first user ("bill").
3. Start Mozilla under another user ("bob") and point it to some PDF file on the
web.

Actual Results:  Acroread says that it can't open the file -- "Permission denied"

Expected Results:  The file should open without any problems.

Additional info:

The problem is that if acroread is already started under "bill", that instance
of the program will be used, but "bill" doesn't have access to "bob"'s .mozilla/
(and .netscape/) directory.

The same will happen if acroread was previously launched from one machnie, and
mozilla/netscape -- from another: these programs live in distinct filesystem trees.

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2002-12-17 15:32:16 UTC
It's fixed in 4.0-22. many thanks for your report.


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