On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Do we have any Macs we can use for building and testing AOO?
>>
>> I've made some progress on a commonly reported serious regression on
>> MacOS (#125431), where encrypted ODF files cannot be opened with
>> recent AOO versions (password allegedly incorrect), but need a Mac to
>> build and test AOO on.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Damjan
>>
>
>
> As far as I know, we do not have a general Mac to use. I didn't see any
> patches attached to issue you reference. Should that approach be taken?

I've attached it now.

Can we get one?

> Since Seamonkey was pulled out in early 2014, and replaced for the 4.1.0
> release with nss, I wonder if some of these problems are due to changes
for
> users that were not documented at all in the 4.1.0 Release Notes. :(
>
> See: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Certificate_Detection
>
> and, I didn't know we had discussed removing nss, although we did remove
> Seamonkey.

That could well be the problem: Macs ship without Mozilla products
pre-installed, and most users won't be setting MOZILLA_CERTIFICATE_FOLDER,
so nss could be failing to initialize, causing a failure to open all
encrypted ODF documents 😱.

Replacing nss was discussed in this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40openoffice.apache.org/msg14374.html
and openssl suggested in this post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40openoffice.apache.org/msg14373.html

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Damjan

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