On Sun 26 Sep 2010 12:37, Martin Grimme <martin.gri...@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 <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 :). >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-developers mailing list >> maemo-developers@maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >> > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
