[Squeakland] Security settings?

[Mark Engelberg]

It says "Error: A primitive has failed".  I've attached the debug log.
 I hope it helps.

Thanks for exaplining the security system.  It sounds like a very
useful feature.

--Mark

On 11/18/05, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> Mark Engelberg wrote:
> > When first starting up Squeak on Windows XP, it says it is
> > initializing the security system.  What exactly is it doing?
>
> It's creating a public/private key pair which is used to automatically
> distinguish your own projects from anybody else's. And when loading a
> project that is not your own it turns on the sandbox (restricting
> various activities, such as access to files etc.) as a safeguarding measure.
>
> > Also, FYI, on my kids' account on XP, Squeak always crashes during
> > this startup.  I suspect that the reason it crashes on their account
> > is because the name of their account contains an ampersand symbol (&).
>
> No. Ampersands in file names are fine.
>
> > Fortunately, if we simply "abandon" the error, it seems to work just fine.
>
> It would be useful if you could let us know what the error says so  that
> we can try to fix it.
>
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
>
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