User:Seneca

From GTALUG

Possessor of the 9-year-old Opie-running laptop and presentation slide collector.

• GTALUG Archaeology, digging up the ghosts of activities' past.
• Getting Opie to run on i386-based laptops
• Chocolate chip cookies, the recipe used for the cookies at the installfest (from The USENET Cookbook)

My SoC proposal

Not exactly the longest, but it was accepted.

Improving non-root Opie

1) Fix opie-login
   Currently, without manual intervention, opie-login can only successfully
login root.  If the owner of /tmp/qtembedded-0/ and its contents are changed to
the desired user after opie-login loads up, but before logging in as that user,
the login acts as expected.  The owner of /tmp/qtembedded-0/ and its contents
needs to be set back to root at some point during the logout, prior to
opie-login attempting to display anything, or opie-login will die.

2) System configuration
   Some of Opie's applications, primarily those located in the "Settings" tab,
need to be root for their changes to be written and take effect.  A small,
non-graphical, suid application that allows users to alter specified files can
be written and called as needed by libqpe's Config class and directly.

3) Fix starting applications as non-root without opie-login
   Most applications die with an error creating a semaphore if started as
non-root from the console.  This used not to happen.  The applications do,
however, start when run with strace or after another Opie application has
successfully been run by that user.

Awards

For your archaeological efforts, I hereby award you the the Presidential Medal of Freedom. -- Sy / ^(talk) 00:33, 18 Jun 2005 (EDT)