[Gambas-user] how to start a file?

[Benoît Minisini]

> Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Probably I'll try to do it directly with the files as you told.
> >> About the project: it is a small project follower with different users.
> >> And I only want to make the files accesible for those who participate in
> >> the project. So it isn't possible to define on the system level. The
> >> best could have been to have a password for the main folder so the users
> >> could access the files only through my application.
> >
> > That does not work like that : rights are based on user identity. A human
> > user usually changes his identity only for becoming root for doing
> > administrative tasks.
> >
> > To do what you want, you have to create a group for your project, adds to
> > the group all users that should access these files, and grant to the
> > files read and write access only to the group and the owner.
> >
> > You do the same thing to grant access to a device only for specific
> > users. A group for cdroms, cdwriters, parallel ports devices, and so on.
> > Only members of these groups can use the device.
> 
> Or you can give the files the root owner (or whatever else), and access
> those files exclusively with your gambas application, makind it SUID (is
> this possible, Benoit? I mean - a SUID bytecode; probably not).
> 
> Regards,
> Doriano
> 

AFAIK, SUID gambas programs are forbidden by Linux, because of the '#!' magic 
at the beginning of the archive file.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini