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

[From: Tomi Ollila]

On Sun 26 Sep 2010 12:37, Martin Grimme <martin.grimme at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> in my experience the separate developer account doesn't work for all
> stuff out of the box. The developer account lacks membership in some
> Unix groups the regular user is member of.

Not anymore :)

http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11339

What about the calendar issue below: There is at least 2 reasons that might
have happened.

1) There is calendar daemon which is communicated with (via dbus or other means)
2) software seeks user id, picks home directory from /etc/passwd for it and
then mangles files there.

Option 1 is most probable here.


>
> Regards,
> Martin

Tomi

>
>
> 2010/9/26, Thomas Waelti <twaelti at gmail.com>:
>> In my very limited personal experience from my first few hours with Qt
>> Creator yesterday, I can already tell you that it doesn't help in security
>> at all:
>> I was browsing the example projects and decided to take a look at the
>> calendar example. Debugging it on the device caused it to replace the
>> in-built calendar...
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>>> As many of you go, Nokia Qt SDK uses, through MADDE, a special
>>> 'developer' account (with it's own home directory) to do stuff on the
>>> device
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> Discuss :).
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