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On 02/02/2011 09:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:00 on Thursday 03 February 2011, walt did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>> As much as I like the convenience of automounting as a luser, all of |
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>> my bofh instincts cry out that lusers shouldn't be allowed to |
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> mount a filesystem! |
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>> This is one of those Windows/convenience versus unix/security things, |
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>> I think, but I'm just an amateur bofh. |
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>> What do you professional bofhs think? |
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> Depends on what the machine is used for. |
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> For a multiuser box, you probably want user to not shutdown/reboot, |
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Yes, even I thought of that. As an amateur, though, I have no idea how many |
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multi-user machines still exist. |
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When I was a lad, the campus computer(s) still ran batch jobs submitted on |
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punch cards. We had to wait for hours or even the next day to discover a |
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stupid typo. |
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Actually, the profs didn't use punchcards, just us peons. The profs had |
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dumb terminals so they could log in to the central server -- and sit for |
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as long as five minutes to discover if the server had crashed, or was |
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just busy serving the needs of the department chairman's secretary. |
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Over the years, the frustrations have merely morphed, not vanished :( |
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> be able to mount removeable media... |
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That was really what I was asking. I hear horror stories about employees |
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plugging usb thumb drives into corporate workstations to steal files, or |
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maybe infecting the whole network with malware from a "lost" thumb drive |
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found at a bus stop or a car park. |
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