[SailfishDevel] file permissions of user data files

[Wim de Vries]

On 08/13/2013 12:12 PM, Stefan Lahner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried both (QDir and QStandardPaths) and this:
>
>     qDebug()<<"QDir:"<<QDir::homePath();
> qDebug()<<"QStandardPaths:"<<QStandardPaths::standardLocations(QStandardPaths::HomeLocation);
>
> returned this:
>
> QDir: "/home/nemo"
> QStandardPaths: ("/home/nemo")

Thanks.
I didn't consider this member for it can output multiple strings.
And not being sure what variants it will output (on different systems/in 
the future) when I query for Home.., I ignored it.
r
wim
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> Am 13.08.2013 11:21, schrieb Wim de Vries:
>> On 08/13/2013 10:59 AM, Joseph Crowell wrote:
>>> It's QStandardPaths::HomeLocation under Qt 5.
>>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtcore/qstandardpaths.html
>>
>> Cant find a member that returns the full path to users home in that
>> class, just "Home".
>>
>>> On 8/13/2013 1:31 AM, Eric Chan wrote:
>>>> there's not property?
>>>>
>>>> ? 2013-8-12,??11:07,Bob Jelica<sailfish at jelica.se>  ??:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>
>>>>> Use QDir.homePath() in your app for a safe place to save files. That will always guarantee that you'll have read/write access.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have fun!
>>>>>
>>>>> //Bob
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 11, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Wim de Vries<wsvries at xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 08/11/2013 01:36 PM, "Thomas B. Rücker" wrote:
>>>>>>> On 08/11/2013 12:21 PM, Wim de Vries wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> I am trying to save a file from within my app.
>>>>>>>> I can read the file, not write to it:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> cannot open "/etc/ssh/authorized_keys/checklists/GEO1" ; "Permission
>>>>>>>> denied"
>>>>>>>> >From within ubuntu I have made the file (GEO1) and dir (checklists)
>>>>>>>> r/w for all.
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why are you as a *user* trying to write to /etc/?
>>>>>>> That's usually completely off limits and for very good reasons I must say.
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>> Indeed, you are right. Wrong place to have user data. I didn't focus on where it ends up on the emulator.
>>>>>> It seems that this is the place where shared files (from the devel machine: emulator/1/ssh) end up.
>>>>>> I guess I have to copy the files via the deployment.
>>>>>> I'll try to figure out the documentation on that ;-(
>>>>>> r
>>>>>> wim
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thomas
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