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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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> On 02/02/2011 11:23 AM, John wrote: |
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> > I have recently upgraded to xfce 4.8 |
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> > All seems to be well apart from |
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> > a) Normal Users cannot shutdown |
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> > b) Normal Users cannot automount using xfce (can through sudo mount). |
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> I understand very well your frustration because my gnome desktop goes |
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> through periods where those things work, and then for some time they |
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> don't work, etc, ad infinitum. |
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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 even be allowed to log |
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> into my system, much less actually 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, be able to |
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mount removeable media and nfs shares, not mount fixed disks. |
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For a terminal server serving thin clients, you likely want users to not be |
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able to do any of that on the server. |
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For a single user workstation, the sole user should be able to do all of it. |
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Perhaps yourself and the maintainer writing the template config disagree on |
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the basic purpose of the machine in question. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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