On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 19:15 +0100, Mark Ellis wrote:
>
> Or for the source package stick it in somewhere
> like /usr/share/sync-engine-doc, so it's available but not installed by
> default. Or not, doesn't really matter.
This seems a sane approach - one for the packagers to implement.
>
> > > 2. Where should the internal authgui.py go
> >
> I'd say anywhere in the engine module tree. Although it's technically a
> separate program it's very much part of sync-engine.
>
Agreed. I'll change this in the next bunch of commits.
> > > 3. Why did I see "unable to open system config file"
> >
> > Normally should be because you don't have syncengine.conf.xml in /etc.
> > But you do :) So I should be able to repeat this problem and fix it.
> >
>
> Permissions ?
But these were checked and were world r/w according to the original
message. It's worth me giving the code a once-over for hamfistedness :~)
>
> > > 4. Even without the internal auth gui, I was using synce-gnome to
> > > authenticate - why didn't sync-engine like this?
> >
> > I will have to investigate this. If sync-engine sees a pre-authenticated
> > device it should not try to re-authenticate. I am a kde user and do not
> > use gnome - could you elaborate on how synce-gnome authenticates (from a
> > user's perspective? I may pick up some clues from this.
> >
>
> Not much time to investigate, so I'll take a guess at this.
>
> Device is plugged in, sync-engine and synce-gnome see it needs a
> password. synce-gnome provides the password, and unlocks the device.
> Meanwhile, sync-engine fails to authenticate directly via _ProcessAuth,
> but does see the auth state changes, and some confusion results ?
Could be. I have never seen this behaviour with kde so I may have to
attempt to run it under a gnome environment to debug it. If you can
repeat this I would be interested to know, and to have a copy of your
log.
John.
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