Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.
Why it is worse to be able to format removable media than to just delete the data on it (which every regular user can do as well)? Or do you suggest only allowing read-only access for normal users? I think that would make things worse and lead to situations like in Windows XP (IIRC), where you had to be an administrator to burn a CD, resulting in most working with administrator rights all the time. I'm also unmarking this bug as "security" as this is an intended behavior of gnome-disk-utility. ** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability -- Non-admin users can format removable media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595823 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs