Issue 17178 - preferences saved in '[oo directory]/user' instead of home directory
Summary: preferences saved in '[oo directory]/user' instead of home directory
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olaf Felka
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2003-07-21 15:33 UTC by sophia
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:53 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Setup Guide (1.41 MB, pdf/txt)
2003-07-21 15:41 UTC, Olaf Felka 		no flags Details
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Description sophia 2003-07-21 15:33:50 UTC 
I installed OO 1.1rc from the
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/OpenOffice/contrib/rc/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_030710_LinuxIntel_install_fr.tar.gz
archive and checked the md5sum.

I choosed '/usr/local/openoffice-1.1rc' as install directory and gived the
writting right to the user which installed it. The install process completed
successfully. I then made a 'chmod -R a-w /usr/local/openoffice-1.1rc' in order
to prevent users to break the installation.

Any OO program always asked me to register my identity even if I previously
answered I will never register me. I understood the program could not save the
user property. Therefore, I setted properly the writting rights with 'chmod -R
a+w /usr/local/openoffice-1.1rc/user'. Although it works now for me, there is
only 1 preferences directory for all users ?! Moreover, what happens if 2 users
simultaneously use OO ? Why not using the '[home directory]/.openoffice-1.1rc'
directory in order to save user preferences ?

Thanks.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2003-07-21 15:40:37 UTC 
OOo isn't designed to work like this. If you install OOo only for one
user, you should do this in the home directory of the user. If you
have a multiuser environment you should start installation with -net
and make a workstation installation for every local user.
Comment 2 Olaf Felka 2003-07-21 15:41:46 UTC 
Created attachment 7895 [details]
Setup Guide
Comment 3 Olaf Felka 2003-07-21 15:42:13 UTC 
Not an OOo issue.
Comment 4 sophia 2003-07-21 15:55:08 UTC 
Maybe the setup process could guide the user in order to let him/her
choose which option he wants ?
Comment 5 Olaf Felka 2003-07-21 16:07:01 UTC 
We are doing heavy changes in OOo 2.0. There are a lot of feature
issue for the new setup.
Thanx for your help.