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

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:
>
> > If there are no components that work with hardcoded usernames od
> uid/gids,
> > that would roughly be it (for files, which are the most common problem
> > IIUC). Services/daemons might get tricky but I suppose that is not a
> nearly
> > as common scenario.
>
> One-time copy can also be problematic if you are mutating the data in
> real time as 'user' while running a program (that is interested in the
> same data) as 'developer'.
>
> This is not an entirely unrealistic use case.
>
> Also, developer would be on separate dbus session bus from 'user' (UUIC).
>
> Considering all of this, I'm inclined to wish we had a  "I know what
> I'm using, please run this app as 'user'|" checkbox in Nokia Qt SDK.
>
>
Hey, I'm always for options :) But the point is that a non-destructive way
of playing with data would be nice - with a little tweaking with su and
friends you can make it run as 'user' anyway, right ?

Best regards,
Attila
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