Am 21.01.2016 um 04:18 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: > On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 04:13 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> This behaviour has been since 2000 or so, since at least the >> introduction of hal and pmount. > > Then one has still some 30 years before where it has been different...
Right, since we had removable media 30 years ago. > >> You don't gain anything security wise by not allowing removable media >> to >> be mounted. The only thing it will cause for sure is inconvenience. > > As I told you before, this is not true,.. you may have easily have > secured terminals where people can log in, but where they cannot e.g. > physically access such devices. In such a very specialised situation you can easily lock down the configuration. For such a setup you will most likely need custom configuration anyway to be secure. A default configuration needs to usable by the majority of users. >> Please don't reopen anymore, or I'll ask bts listmaster to block your >> address. > > Ah quite funny... "do as I want... or I use dictatorship methods"... > > It's quite disturbing when a real issue is reported, that this is > simply done away by threatening people. There is no "real issue". Point. You are making a big fuss for nothing and wasting everyones time, mine included. I'm not willing to tolerate that. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
