Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/08 18:53, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:58:55AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Sorry for the non debian-specific post. > > You mean a non-debian specific post. No, I don't think so. >

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:58:55AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. You mean a non-debian specific post. Why not ask on a Ubuntu list? Doug. I have not had much luck with the ubuntu list. Google could not help me either and I

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:58:55AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Sorry for the non debian-specific post. You mean a non-debian specific post. Why not ask on a Ubuntu list? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 22:58, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] This "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# rgrep floppy *" led me to /etc/udev/permissions.rules which has these 2 lines in them: # all block devices on these bu

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:45:44 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: [...] > > > I am fairly certain that it is hal that is doing the automount (nautilus > > > calls gnome-mount which in turns calls hal) The device gets mounted with > > > the permissions 700 and owned by the unprivileged user. How

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am fairly certain that it is hal that is doing the automount (nautilus > > calls gnome-mount which in turns calls hal) The device gets mounted with > > the permissions 700 and owned by the unprivileged user. However, t

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 22:58, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > This "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# rgrep floppy *" led me to > /etc/udev/permissions.rules which has these 2 lines in them: > # all block devices on these buses are "removable" > SU

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 20:56, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 20:56, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>> Sorry for the non debian-specific post. >>> >>> I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to external storage devices on a ubuntu 7.10 system. I have created an unprivileged user, 'guest'. The user is not

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to external storage devices on a ubuntu 7.10 system. I have created an unprivileged user, 'guest'. The user is not a member of any other group than the de

Re: [OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to external storage devices on a ubuntu 7.10 system. I have created an unprivileged user, 'guest'. The user is not a member of any other group than the default. $ id guest uid=1

[OT] Problem restricting user privileges in ubuntu 7.10

2008-03-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Sorry for the non debian-specific post. I am facing some trouble in disabling user access to external storage devices on a ubuntu 7.10 system. I have created an unprivileged user, 'guest'. The user is not a member of any other group than the default. $ id guest uid=1001(guest) gid=1001(guest)