-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:41:45PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>>>>> *HOWEVER* parted requires root privileges. That is not acceptable. > >>>>>>> Suggestions? > >>>>>>> TIA > > Futzing with partitions is the admin's job. > > Could be, but it's not (g)parted's job to enforce these kinds of rules: > that's what Unix permissions (and Linux's capabilities) are for. > > It's OK to add a warning and prompt the user to make sure he really > means to do that, but there's no point *preventing* the user from > shooting his own foot with this tool if he can do it with other > tools anyway. > > > fdisk also want's root (or > > sudo). You want some user poking around in the disk(s)? > > BTW, I have a pending bug report around this very same issue: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439409 > > Feel free to weight in ;-)
Done. For me "this is the way gparted is designed" sounds so wrong on many levels that it took me a while to articulate myself :-) regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgi4EUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZQIgCcDwa+lVLv8fFUrJhMq8URV4Xq kzcAnRX6iNYN/fSKCe84iC/xWHkpJ5ZY =xRqQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
