Re: Drive Mount Applet only works as root?

[Bryan Pfaffenberger <bp virginia edu>]

Well stated. Perhaps the remedy lies at the distribution
level - the Red Hat installation software, for example, could give installers
the option to make disk drives accessible to users, and would install an fstab
with the user option enabled for drives...  

--Bryan

> Personally this would be
> stepping over the line that separates GNOME being a portable desktop
> environment to an extension of one particular OS.

> > 
> > In a previous message, I suggested that, on first use, GNOME should start
> > with a wizard that briefly explains the concepts of root user and user
> > accounts, and guides the user through the process of setting up a user
> > account for everyday use. Such a wizard could include an install option
> > (selected by default) that enables users to configure the system as a
> > single-user, non-networked system. This option could launch a script that,
> > behind the scenes, rewrites fstab so that users are granted access to disk
> > drives.
> >