[maemo-developers] MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

[From: Sivan Greenberg]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:
> That means that it doesn't use the information (databases etc.) stored
> in the users home directory. I'm gradually starting to feel this is a
> bad idea, that leads to subtle problems when developers are trying to
> pretend that they are running their application as default user (and
> hence have direct access to all the data user has).

Maybe there could be a COW mount created into the "developer" user
account to have access to the user's data and settings but not to
write/overwrite them but to the "developer" home user that could be
recreated with every test?

Just my 2c.

-Sivan