#8814 HIGH 9.1.0-c: WikipediaEN Activity does not work on secure machines with 767

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#8814: WikipediaEN Activity does not work on secure machines with 767
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           Reporter:  frances              |       Owner:  cjb            
               Type:  defect               |      Status:  new            
           Priority:  high                 |   Milestone:  9.1.0-cancelled
          Component:  wikibrowse-activity  |     Version:  not specified  
         Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  cjbfor9.1.0    
        Next_action:  diagnose             |    Verified:  0              
Deployment_affected:                       |   Blockedby:                 
           Blocking:                       |  
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Comment(by martin.langhoff):

 What you mention in #5 is close to being the problem.

 There is one thing that I find deeply intriguing... if an activity _does
 not_ have "constant-uid", it gets a different uid everytime, but the owner
 of the files in its data dir is not fixed. So the meaning of user/group
 permissions, from the PoV of the activities _and their libraries_ is
 subverted.

 I emphasize the issue with libraries because I assume that the activity
 programmer has reasons to play nice with rainbow's quirks, but widely used
 libraries are much harder to move.

 As for a "right fix" for this, a recursive chown has its risks. But
 without it, the owner bit is broken...

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