Creating a non-python activity

[Michael Stone]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:50:17AM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote:
> Hi.
> 
>      The app that i am trying to run must be run as super user for it to run
> properly. So i tried using su -c app_name in the shell script described in
> the link http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1555.0
> 
>       Now the activity just says starting in the home ring and doesnt
> launch.

The reason why your script fails is that general activities are run with
low privilege and are not permitted to exercise the privileges of the
human operator.

See 

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow
  http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=security;a=blob;f=bitfrost.txt;hb=HEAD

for some details.

Now, what are you actually trying to accomplish?

Michael