how to let activities write to file without risking security
Charles Merriam
charles.merriam at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 06:18:11 EDT 2008
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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