Marius Vollmer wrote:
"ext Aniello Del Sorbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I still don't understand why this cannot be done in an easy way from
the maemo team.
Patches are welcome! :-)
It would be nice to :)
It is not completely straighforward to use dpkg and apt-get with mixed
users, but it might not be that difficult either. You would need to
make sure that they can still maintain their databases and caches,
etc.
I know it not straightforward, I said easy, not "it's there, just
activate it". I am aware there would be issue and something would need a
rethink.
But I am quite confident it could be done.
dpkg and whatever other app that install application on the device can
be executed by root, but they can run the
pre/post/during/you_name_it-install script as 'user'.
If they are not though already like that, I do not welcome patching the
dpkg itself.
I am not a dpkg guru, but I will take a look at it. Who knows if they
already thought about this scenario.
After all it makes sense also on a regular desktop.
But, increasing the robustness of the device is a much more subtle
issue than not installing packages as root. Not installing packages
as root doesn't give you much protection against accidents. (Not
_running_ them as root does, on the other hand.)
Yes.
You will also need to prevent applications from doing harm at
run-time, for example. What good is it when an application has not
been installed as root but still deletes all your image files by
accident? Or a statusbar plugin consumes so much memory at a steady
rate that the device reboots after 10 minutes? You could make a
distinction between applications that you allow to modify your files
(all files, or just some?) and other that are just alloed to read them
(really? maybe you should not let them read your honey moon
pictures).
That's a different matter. Badly conceived apps can still and will cause
damage. No matter how are they ran.
I think that way lies madness.
:)
--
anidel
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