Re: [SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

Hi Bernd, On 13.05.2014 16:13, Bernd Wachter wrote: > Mehdi El Gueddari writes: > >> I'm been googling long and hard but haven't been able to find much >> information about the 'devel-su' command, beyond the fact that it's the >> command to use on Sailfish to switch to the

Re: [SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

Bernd, Ove, Thanks a lot your answers! I did get the feeling that Jolla had kept the 'devel-su' name but used it for a completely different purpose. This clarifies everything. Cheers, Mehdi On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Ove Kåven o...@arcticnet.no wrote: On 13. mai 2014 15:14, Mehdi El

[SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

Hi, I'm been googling long and hard but haven't been able to find much information about the 'devel-su' command, beyond the fact that it's the command to use on Sailfish to switch to the root user. I also couldn't find the source code for it anywhere. If there is someone with more insider

Re: [SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

Mehdi El Gueddari me...@tickmeet.com writes: I'm been googling long and hard but haven't been able to find much information about the 'devel-su' command, beyond the fact that it's the command to use on Sailfish to switch to the root user. I also couldn't find the source code for it anywhere.

Re: [SailfishDevel] Where did devel-su come from and what's its purpose?

On 13. mai 2014 15:14, Mehdi El Gueddari wrote: Back in the Meego days, 'devel-su' would let you switch to, quite literally, a developer super user account, which had more privileges than a normal user but wasn't quite root (or at least it seems that way from the few user complaints I could