[Labs-l] Question: GUI Editor on Tool Labs && "become" command

Thu May 2 13:51:03 UTC 2013

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 05:48 AM, Silke Meyer wrote:
>> Is it possible to switch to the project's account in a graphical
>> environment and if so how???
>> Supposedly, there are/will be Tool Labs users working with GUI tools
>> on Linux as well as Windows (like Winscp).
>>
>> What's the proposed workflow for them?
>
> In general, it's not necessary to switch to the tool account for this.
> The tool account's home's permissions are set so that every maintainer
> has write access to it directly.
>
> The only caveat is that if their umask is set to 022 (I've set it to 002
> on tools by default), files they create will not be writable by /other/
> maintainers without a fix.

Also, for the tool's public_html directory, is seems that PHP files
will give a 500 error unless the owner of the file is tool user.

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Brad Jorsch
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation