Re: [gnome-db] User space providers

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 23:50, Adam Williams wrote:
> > > > sounds good, and it's not really a huge modification. You just need to
> > > > change libgda/gda-config.c to look for an extra directory, in the user's
> > > > home, and look for providers there. As you'll see after looking at the
> > > > code, the modifications needed are quite small. You just have to add a
> > > > list of directories to search for, and repeat the code there is right
> > > > now for searching in $prefix/lib/libgda/providers, for each directory.
> > > > We could also take advantage of this to have a way for sysadmins to
> > > > specify other directories to search for providers. There could be an
> > > > entry in the system-wide config file that can be uses to specify those
> > > > extra directories.
> > > I wouldn't want to set extra directories, i thought more in terms of
> > > incorporating the filenames into the config file. I'll do a prototype
> > > and show it around to explain what i mean
> > well, I mean we could have this as an extra feature. By default, it will
> > look in the system-wide directory and in the user's directory. If there
> > is, apart from that, more directories specified in the config file, it
> > will also look in them.
> 
> Is it (will it be) possible to disable this "looking in the home
> directory" for providers?  Or will setting noexec on /home prevent it
> from loading shared libraries from their anyway?
> 
yes, this is perfectly possible. We can use the system-wide
libgda/config file and add there a key to disable/enable looking in
users' $HOME.

> Someday, hopefully, GNOME will offer the ability for admins (like me) to
> manage user session configuration like we can in WinY2k.  It seems like
> the above would be part of that.
> 
I think there are some plans about this for GNOME 2.6. Maybe you can
join the discussion and give your ideas. IIRC, the discussion was in
desktop-devel-list gnome org, so you should be able to see the archives
there.

cheers