Pavel Sanda wrote:

> John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
>> 2009/6/16 Pavel Sanda <[email protected]>:
>> > ok i just added it. also tried to assimilate to the new directory
>> > structure, please review my patches and send your changes to the code.
>> >
>> > my idea was that "make keystest" should work for devs out of the box.
>> 
>> I was thinking that it would be best to run it under xnest so that a
>> VM is not required. However there still is the issue of protecting the
>> user from LyX's random actions.
>> 1) The simplest way is to "sudo -u nobody" the test. However this
>> requires sudo privileges and willingness to use them. Also I am not
>> sure how well an interactive sudo prompt would would with make.
>> 2) Plash  (plash.beasts.org), Systrace or plasticfs could be used, but
>> these are not in the (Ubuntu) repos.
>> 3) One could also change $HOME and hope for the best, but I wouldn't
>> trust this.
>> 
>> Any opinions on these.
> 
> to use 3 is potentialy dangerous, although its unprobable lyx is able to
> to run any external command via lfun or edit any file on your $HOME ;)
> 
> either your VM or create new user under your system and everything runs
> there.

Remember to unplug the printer ;-) Asger told me once about a forest that 
went lost because of a similar project....

A/




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