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

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Christian Kandeler
<christian.kandeler at nokia.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).
>
> 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 just tried

- Giving password to "user"
- ssh in as user from terminal (success, answer "yes" to host id query though).
- Test connection as "user" (success, qt versions listed)
- Deploy key as "user", test the "key" authentication scheme (success,
qt versions listed)
- Run a program with ctrl + r using this setup (fail):

Cleaning up remote leftovers first ...
Error running initial cleanup: Could not connect to host..

Have you guys (Christian & Tomi mostly ;-) verified this scheme (using
'user') to work recently?


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Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia