Hi David! David Zeuthen [2006-01-17 10:09 -0500]: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:03 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > When pmount was initially created, we explicitly defined that pmount > > must not mount hard disk partitions. In Ubuntu, hard disk partitions > > which are supposed to be used by the user are created statically in > > fstab, and you can explicitly allow additional devices in > > /etc/pmount.allow, though. > > Interesting, thanks for the insights. It seems to me that it should > probably be dependent on install class (e.g. allow this for laptops, not > so for servers), but, eh, this is distro dependent. Oh well. Right; so far we just kept the paranoid approach, until somebody complains really loudly. :) Also, there is nothing wrong if gnome-vfs shows mounted Windows partitions and the like. In fact it has done so since the beginnings of Ubuntu, and it is very handy. We just don't allow users to mount hd partitions by default, but if they are configured in fstab (usually in the installer), it can be used normally of course, and is fully integrated into the usual Gnome places. > > > Oh, reminds me... is there a standard library that GNOME apps can use > > > and it'll use the preferred way of auth on different distributions? E.g. > > > consolehelper on Fedora, the sudo thing on Ubuntu etc. > > > > That would indeed be a nice abstraction, given over how many places > > this is spread. I. e. (using consolehelper/gksudo/gsku/etc.). However, > > I'm not aware of a project to abstract these into a library. > > Yea. That would be nice. It's needed to make GNOME more admin friendly. BTW, it came to my knowledge that Ludwig Nussel from SuSE had a similar idea: http://www.suse.de/~lnussel/pamwrapper/. However, I didn't look at it at all so far. Have a nice day, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
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