Thunderbird profile permissions

dosnlinux · 04-22-2006, 08:41 AM

I'm interested in moving my Windows Thunderbird profile to Linux, and was wondering what are the best permissions for the files, or if I can just use the standard 755 for directories and 644 for the rest.

ataraxia · 04-22-2006, 10:12 AM

Those permissions will work. If you're feeling paranoid (and you have other users) you might want to use 700 (directories) and 600 (files) on stuff that has private data like passwords and the actual mail-bodies.

The profile layout is a little bit different from one OS to the other. Windows does this:

Code:

Application Data
  Thunderbird
    profiles.ini
    registry.data
    Profiles
      i5ewvyde.default

whereas my Debian has this:

Code:

.mozilla-thunderbird
  appreg
  profiles.ini
  i5ewvyde.default

dosnlinux · 04-22-2006, 02:56 PM

Great! Thank you.

I just copied the thunderbird profile from windows to ~/.thunderbird after removing everything and it works just fine, even though the Linux layout for a profile is a little different.

I guess I'll go back and reset the permissions to 755/644 and also fine tune the directory structure just for the experience.