how to let activities write to file without risking security

[Charles Merriam]

FYI, this might crop up.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Bitfrost#org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied

Basically, don't choose the solution of making both users have the
same uid.  -- Charles Merriam

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:24 AM, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
> > At OLE Nepal we need to let our etoys image allow writing to disk,
>  > however under rainbow the image is executed under another user id.
>  > What's the way to give an/our activity permission to write to certain
>  > directories without just making them world writable, which is surely
>  > not the way to go.
>
>  Make them world writeable.
>
>  I don't know why the Nepal team wants to insist on ultimate super high
>  security all the time.  Security is not there to make your life
>  miserable.  In many cases it isn't there for any reason at all;
>  somebody did it for their own situation, which doesn't match your
>  situation.  If it gets in the way, turn it off!  That's why there is a
>  switch.
>
>         John
>
>
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