Issue 1795 - Installs by the root user should install to multiple user directory
Summary: Installs by the root user should install to multiple user directory
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 1794
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: falko.tesch
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2001-10-05 23:56 UTC by mikemaccana
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:53 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description mikemaccana 2001-10-05 23:56:19 UTC 
This is a follow up to bug 1794, which suggests that root installs should 
always be multiple user.

The directory suggested to install openoffice in, when the installer is run as 
the root user, should not be in roots home directory. Rather this should be 
dependent on the filesystem standards on the target platform - i.e., 
/usr/local or /opt on Linux, /opt on Solaris, etc.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2001-10-08 10:27:43 UTC 
It's still our decision to install as we do. So it's not an issue, 
it's a feature. Maybe you think this feature is not optimal, in this
case you should write an issue, but the issue type is not "defect",
it's an "enhancement" or "feature".
Falko, it's your turn.
Comment 2 mikemaccana 2001-10-08 12:45:09 UTC 
Thanks for your prompt reply, and your work on OpenOffice in general.

Installing a end user application into roots home directory encourages
a practice that everyone (AFAIK) in the Unix community specifically
avoids for the reason that it encourages insecure use of the system.

I believe this is a bug, and that more than 99% of OpenOffice users,
Unix users, and Unix programmers (including the OpenOffice team) would
agree.

While I appreciate that it is indeed up to Openoffice.org to choose
how it installs,  (although this seems to have been a decision of
StarDivision) I don't see how that automatically makes those decisions
correct. It is almost universally accepted that installing end user
applications into roots home directory and thus encouraging their use
by this user is a poor and incorrect decision, and I would be very
surprised if anyone could successfully change these widely accepted
beliefs.

I have remarked this issue as a defect.

Mike
Comment 3 falko.tesch 2001-10-10 17:10:58 UTC 
double with 1794

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 1794 ***
Comment 4 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 17:31:37 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details. First step in IssueZilla is
unfortunately to set them to verified.
Comment 5 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 18:00:44 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details.
Comment 6 michael.bemmer 2003-03-11 18:00:57 UTC 
As mentioned on the qa dev list on March 5th I will close all resolved duplicate
issues. Please see this posting for details.