reopen 439409
thanks
>> The subject says it all: if you try to run gparted as a non-root user,
>> gparted just puts up a message saying "you must be root". Thing is, I
>> wanted to repartition an external device to which my non-root user has
>> read/write access.
> That's the way gparted was disigned. Repartiotioning a disk drive may
> have very serious consequences.
What does it have to do with my request?
This non-root user can already cause the same serious consequences
without gparted (e.g. with a simple cat </dev/random >/dev/sdg).
More to the point, the fact that gparted refuses to do its job will just
force this user to either use lower-level tools that are even more
dangerous, or su to root, thus putting the whole system at risk since it
may then end up partitioning the wrong disk.
Tagging it as WONTFIX because we disagree might be OK, but I think
closing this bug is wrong because you did not address the problem.
Stefan
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