On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Nikolay Elenkov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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)

But then again, testing how your app behaves in a multiuser
environment becomes somewhat tricky. Is there a way to
'activate' an app that is already on the device for a certain
user using the UI? Or you need to 'install' it again by downloading,
etc.?

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