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

[Mehdi El Gueddari]

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 <ovek at arcticnet.no> wrote:

> 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 find).
>>
>
> Well, not quite. Under Aegis, devel-su escalated your privileges to the
> max, but did not actually change to another account. (You could set up a
> developer account for interaction with the SDK, but it had no special
> privileges.) Also, under Aegis, root didn't have any special permissions,
> you were actually more privileged as a regular user than you were as root.
> Thus, regular "su" was useless. You just needed devel-su if you wanted to
> do stuff.
>
>
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