failures disabling security [was Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age]

[Morgan Collett]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 18:18,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> erik wrote:
>  > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:30:47PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>  > > ....
>  > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:55:43PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote:
>  > >> In particular, our security model has the effect of preventing work on
>  > >> this issue that isn't supported by all the core developers.
>  > >
>  > > Scott seems to be suffering from no impediment from our security model
>  > > so please explain your complaint in more detail or
>  > >
>  > >   rm /etc/olpc-security
>  > >   and get on with life.
>  >
>  > I am attempting to disable rainbow security with this command but
>  > finding failures with several activities:
>  > http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8834
>
> what is the actual effect of removing that file?  in particular,
> what affect does it have on things specified in permissions.info:
> persistent uid, access to USB serial, etc?  (it may have no
> affect -- but if it disables any of those features, it feels like
> a possible issue.)

The activities should just run as user olpc then, with everything that
olpc has access to.

Regards
Morgan