On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:53:28AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:41, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:11:11PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 00:36, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > How do I turn it off? I don't want anything to be mounted > >> > automatically or semi-automatically! Only root can do that --- if > >> > gnome tries to circumvent that, that is a huge security hole and a > >> > bug. > > It's an incredibly huge security hole. It's breaking the whole concept > > of having different users with different permissions. > > No, it just means that users have permission to mount whatever > is in fstab with the user/users options. That has been in Unix for > a long time. > > Besides, without correct mounting and unmounting, there's no way to > > make sure that all data has been written to the device which is about > > to be removed. You can't do that on windoze either, it will eventually > > complain and/or be messed up so that you need to reboot, though it > > sometimes works. And it's awfully slow with removable devices/media. > > And you don't have any control over your data anymore ... > Well, I like extensive control of my computer, and I like as much info > and as many options as possible, which is why I use Debian Linux > with a WM, not a Desktop Environment, and no Display Manager. You can also have fine-grained controll yet let users do specific things, in a few different ways. If a filesystem (e.g. user X's thumb-drive) has a UUID, and you put that UUID (instead of a normal device name) in fstab, then only that UUID device can be mounted, but by any user (who happens to have user X's thumb drive). There's a way to only allow a user to mount a drive to a mount point that they own. I don't know if you could have, e.g. ~/mnt as a mount point in fstab for thumb drives. In that case, you could require users to put a filesystem label of e.g. "thumb" so that any user can mount their thumb drive under ~/mnt (or perhaps ~/thumb). Or, you could use sudo and give specific commands related to mounting that each user can do. There are more options. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
