[Sugar-devel] Sugar Activities and Permission Errors

[Jim Simmons]

Francis,

Activities cannot be made to run as root.  However, there should be no
need whatsoever to do this.  You can download files from a website
using code like that in the "Get Internet Archive Books" activity.
That Activity uses http to download books from the Internet Archive
website.

The permissions may be on the Google Docs side, in which case running
as root isn't going to help.  Maybe you could move the file to
someplace else, or include it in the Activity bundle?

James Simmons


> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:38:02 -0500
> From: Francis Xavier Fitzpatrick <francis.x.fitzpatrick at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Activities and Permission Errors
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> Hello!
>
> I've just begun working on a few activities that a class at my University
> made last semester. The class made three different games (in Python) and
> then tried to port them to the OLPC and run them as a sugar activity.
>
> I was able to get a few of the games to start up correctly, but whenever
> they try to download a file from Google Docs I get a permission error. I
> started off by changing the permissions of the file location to 777, which
> didn't work, and then just to be sure I changed the permissions of the
> entire activity folder to 777... still no luck.
>
> To be absolutely sure that this is a permission problem, I would like to run
> the activity as root. Is this possible? Or does anyone have any better
> ideas?
>
> Thank you,
> Fran Fitzpatrick
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