> However, my userid would not be able to work on the underlying > device (/dev/sde in my case) without privileged access (root is > the owner of the /dev/sde device).
Sure, if that's the case, of course gparted can't work. But you can certainly imagine a configuration where a non-root user has full access to a device -- whether due to local site-specific configuration or some standard thing like a device owned by group floppy. Or even consider an explicit "chmod 666 /dev/sdg" if the sysadmin is feeling particularly generous. Now clearly any user can write to the device, so why in the world should "gparted" assume that you need to be root and refuse to even try? -jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
