[Libreoffice] How to disable addon installation

[Olivier Hallot]

Hi Manuel

I second your concern. Extensions are a potentially security hole and it 
should be possible to install LibreOffice without the ability to install 
extensions. The extension installer, expecially the GUI should be an 
option at intall time.

It has been noted here:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Enterprises_nice-to-have#Extensions_UI_should_be_disableable

If you want no extensions at all (can break something, I have not 
tested), you must erase unopkg executables from your installation.

But if you want only to disable the GUI, de-register the proper dll in 
the command prompt:

C:\Program Files\LibreOffice.org 3\Basis\program>..\..\URE\bin\regcomp 
-revoke -r services.rdb -c 
"vnd.sun.star.expand:$OOO_BASE_DIR/program/deploymentguimi.uno.dll"
vnd.sun.star.expand:$OOO_BASE_DIR/program/deploymentguimi.uno.dll
revoke component 
'vnd.sun.star.expand:$OOO_BASE_DIR/program/deploymentguimi.uno.
dll' from registry 'services.rdb' succesful!

swoosh!, vanished.

Olivier


Em 02-04-2011 05:41, Manuel Reimer escreveu:
> Manuel Reimer wrote:
>> As it's possible to install an addon by just passing it to the soffice
>> executable, anything, a bad guy has to do, is to deliver a oxt file with
>> the content type "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text".
>
> Addition to my first post: Seems to be no bug but a feature. In the past
> it pointed out that if it is made to easy to start potentially bad
> stuff, this usually caused security problems.
>
> As this (in my opinion too) simple way of installing addons is even
> documented here:
> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/resources/user/howto_install
> I don't think that someone will change this.
>
> So can someone please just point me to the setting to disable addon
> installation at all?
>
> Thanks
>
> Yours
>
> Manuel
>
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