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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday March 11, 2017 @05:23AM (#13844995)
Wouldn't an application-specific user account (mostly) solve that problem without having to resort to a more complicated access control model?
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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by danieldk on Saturday March 11, 2017 @07:43AM (#13845268)
Then you have to fiddle when you want the application to read/write a file in your home directory. So, then either the application has blanket access again or the user has to manager per-file groups or ACLs.
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Re:Goodbye Mac App Store by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:14AM (#13845318)
So a text editor gets the user's permissions, a game that writes a local save file has its own permissions ... what's an example app that wouldn't be able to work this way?
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