Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-10 Thread Charles Merriam
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At OLE Nepal we n

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-10 Thread John Gilmore
> 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 g

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Ties Stuij
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 07.04.2008, at 23:50, Ties Stuij wrote: > > Hey list, > > > > 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

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 07.04.2008, at 23:50, Ties Stuij wrote: > Hey list, > > 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 makin

Re: [Etoys] how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 08.04.2008, at 06:21, karl wrote: > A activity with Squeak would be nice, and even useful :-) It could > just > be the Etoy dev image with write permission. Well, the Right Thing would be to check the image+changes files into the datastore. Problem is, it is unusably inefficient to do so

Re: [Etoys] how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread karl
Ties Stuij wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > But if someone has a good idea about >> > saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all >> > ears.

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Ties Stuij
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But if someone has a good idea about > > saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all > > ears. >If you just want to save

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Korakurider
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Ties Stuij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if someone has a good idea about > saving an image and writing to the changes file on the XO, I'm all > ears. If you just want to save your work during development in Squeak, the setup procedure in http://wiki.lapto

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Ties Stuij
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Korakurider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Before thinking about solution, could you explain specificaly what you > want to write to disk and how that will be used? > > /Korakurider Well, I was wondering on a general level how Sugar handles this, because I r

Re: how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-08 Thread Korakurider
Hi, Before thinking about solution, could you explain specificaly what you want to write to disk and how that will be used? /Korakurider On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Ties Stuij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey list, > > At OLE Nepal we need to let our etoys image allow writing to disk, > how

how to let activities write to file without risking security

2008-04-07 Thread Ties Stuij
Hey list, 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