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.


Regards,
Martin


2010/9/26, Thomas Waelti <twae...@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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