On Friday, June 3, 2011 10:00:44 AM UTC+2, steeldusk wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to set user and group in init.rc for my own service. It > works nicely with having user as root, but I see some other default > android services have 'system' as group. > Hi
I written down what I understand from user and groups here https://github.com/keesj/gomo/wiki/AndroidUserAndGroups you might find it useful or not. My understanding of the "system" user is that it is a user that was given very broad set of permissions( by using capabilities and user/group settings on files) but not the typical "all" permissions the root user will get. Making a service part of a group broadens it's permissions. Greetings > > For example, > > service media /system/bin/mediaserver > class services > group system audio camera > > and, I am wondering what this 'system' is. Can someone give me any > idea? > > Thanks. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting