On 5/30/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > And to elaborate: the idea is that untrusted code should not be > > running as the 'olpc' user: 'olpc' is a trusted account. Activities > > run/should be running as their own unique UUIDs, which are isolated > > from the olpc account. > > > > so a python program written by the owner of the laptop won't run as user > olpc?
A Pippy program will in general not run as 'olpc'. > what if they write it in the terminal activity using vi? When you log in to the terminal you are running as olpc. You are a trusted user. You can clearly write code and run it as yourself (olpc), if you like. We would like to think that eventually you will prefer to use Bitfrost-like capabilities (even on non-Sugar linux platforms) to run your code by default as another user, just as best practice says you shouldn't run most code you write as root. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel