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

[From: Tomi Ollila]

Hi

Original idea behind 'developer' account was to have separate filesystem
space where to experiment things -- and to get feedback what works and
what doesn't.

First iterations even had different uid for developer but that did not
work at all (x clients did not start, among other things ;/)

Symlink /home/developer/MyDocs -> /home/user/MyDocs is there for
convenience (which somewhat breaks the original idea; however an
alternative: link to /home/user/MyDocs/developer would be even worse...)

Currently /home/developer/.profile in mad-developer fremantle version 
does not load /home/user/.profile; there is no /home/user/.profile to
begin with... If there were (user-created) one, should that be sourced in...


Discussion continues inline below...


On Wed 22 Sep 2010 18:21, Thomas Perl <th.perl at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/9/22 Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler at nokia.com>:
>> From Qt Creator's side, nothing prevents you from just giving the user name
>> "user" instead of "developer" in the Maemo device configuration. The only
>> problem is then accessing that account; if I'm not much mistaken, login is
>> disabled for it.

>
> I always SSH into the "user" account - you just have to set a
> password. If that's possible from Qt Creator, this could be a
> solution. The user would still have to manually set up a password for
> the "user" account, though (or the "MAD Developer" app should have an
> advanced option of setting the "user" password).

Currently:

1) start mad-developer
2) execute 'developer terminal'
3) enter 'devrootsh passwd user'

It would not be too hard to set both user and developer password in
mad-developer (checking beforehand that user doesn't have password
to begin with)...

Anyway.. It is good to have this discussion (now). Good ideas how to
improve the current functionality and why are appreciated -- then I
can change the functionality of mad-developer accordingly (and it's
MADDE counterpart).

>
> Thomas

Tomi