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 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. > sailfishos.org >
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