On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is most probably intentional -- whitelisting a host affects the
>> whole system,
>> and only the administrator (first) user should be able to do it. It is the 
>> same
>> with installing certificates, etc. You certainly wouldn't want anyone that 
>> you
>> lent the device to to change the system configuration and open up potential
>> security holes without you knowing about it.
>
> I agree, a secondary account shouldn't be able to make the change.
>
> However, *some* dialog should still appear, telling the person holding
> the tablet "sorry, you must be on the primary account to activate USB
> debugging".

No, it should say: 'Go away, stop messing with MY tablet!'  :)

Seriously though, USB debugging should probably be switched off
unconditionally when you change to a non-admin account. Thus
the device will not even show up when connected. Or is this the
current behaviour? (don't have a tablet right now)

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