Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-27 Thread fsmithred
On 08/26/2015 01:08 PM, Go Linux wrote: > On Wed, 8/26/15, Steve Litt wrote: > > Subject: Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 11:31 AM > > On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 > 12:58:14

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-27 Thread David Hare
On 27/08/15 15:09, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:58:14 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:29 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: On Sun 26 July 2015 23:18:58 Steve Litt wrote: You can roll your own automount with one day's work using inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk,

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:58:14 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:29 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > On Sun 26 July 2015 23:18:58 Steve Litt wrote: > > > You can roll your own automount with one day's work using > > > inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command.

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-26 Thread Go Linux
On Wed, 8/26/15, Steve Litt wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 11:31 AM On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:58:14 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:29 +0200, Jo

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:58:14 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:29 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > On Sun 26 July 2015 23:18:58 Steve Litt wrote: > > > You can roll your own automount with one day's work using > > > inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command.

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-26 Thread Steven W. Scott
If you want a quick hack, I'm using a couple commands in a perl script kicked off from inittab that works pretty well for listing attached media with a recognizable filesystem on an appliance I'm working on - its meant to provide a list of mountable drives but wouldn't take much to perform the moun

[DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-08-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 17:29 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > On Sun 26 July 2015 23:18:58 Steve Litt wrote: > > You can roll your own automount with one day's work using inotify-wait, > > dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command. Works without X or window > > manager. Heck, I'll do it myself if m

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:51:08 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > > xfce4 can be made to look like Windows XP (panel at the bottom, > > notifications on the right and applications on a menu on the left) > > which almost all of my family, friends, neighbours and students are > > familiar with. That reduces the

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:38:08 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 00:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:10:29 +0200 > > Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > > > Mounting should be restricted to only the

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 00:09 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:10:29 +0200 > Svante Signell wrote: > > > On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > Mounting should be restricted to only the most experienced users, > > > never embedded in the software so every use

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-28 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 09:29:09AM +0100, kpb wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:09:45 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > Cheer up Svante. This isn't for your corporation's web servers, it's > > for the guy with a desktop, the system's only user, a guy who already > > has root but just doesn't want to

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-28 Thread kpb
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:09:45 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Cheer up Svante. This isn't for your corporation's web servers, it's > for the guy with a desktop, the system's only user, a guy who already > has root but just doesn't want to do su all the time, who just wants > automounting to happen. >

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:10:29 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > That's a very gracious offer, Steve, and I'm sure it will be greatly > > appreciated. =) > > > > If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but > > automountin

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-27 Thread Dave Turner
What he said! My laptop and my desktop will be easy to use. Multi-user systems are a different kettle of fish. Security has to take to take precedence, but make it too difficult and nobody will use your new OS in the first place... DaveT On 27/07/15 16:49, Robert Storey wrote: > > On Sun,

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-27 Thread Robert Storey
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Steve Litt > > wrote: > > You can roll your own automount with one day's work using > > inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command. > > Works without X or window manager. Heck, I'll do it myself > > if more than 20

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-27 Thread Daniel Cegiełka
2015-07-27 11:45 GMT+02:00 Jaromil : > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Svante Signell wrote: >> On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: >> > If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but >> > automounting peripheral drives like jump drives, CDs and whatnot is an >> > inexcus

Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-27 Thread Jaromil
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but > > automounting peripheral drives like jump drives, CDs and whatnot is an > > inexcusable security risk, in my opinion, even und

[DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager

2015-07-27 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > That's a very gracious offer, Steve, and I'm sure it will be greatly > appreciated. =) > > If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but > automounting peripheral drives like jump drives, CDs and whatnot is an > inexcusab