Markus Hitter [2008-11-20 17:01 +0100]:
> Well, if you edit a system file as a normal user, you'd have to provide
> the password, don't you? That's like "vi" vs. "sudo vi".
Right, but sudo always times out quickly, whereas PK privileges
potentially stay forever. Also, sudo is a mechanism to run o
Hi folks,
It's good to see this being discussed; I am your putative new user to
Ubuntu and Linux in general - although I work 2nd line tech support
(corporate IT) - Lotus Notes and Wintel, so I know the problem
resolution/reporting flow from that end.
I also bought my machine preinstalled with 8
A friend of mine connected a USB external hard drive up to his ubuntu laptop.
It had previously been used on a mac, and had some files on it. He can't access
the files because the owner is the username used on the mac, different to the
username on the ubuntu laptop, and the file permissions are
Hi all,
What's the recommended method for setting up an Ubuntu 8.04 system as a
development station with no Internet access? I installed from CD, and got
gcc, but no g++, gcj or other goodies. I'd also like to get Octave going on
the system, but it didn't appear to be on the distribution CD. The D
2008/11/21 Terry Sikes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I did run across the idea of apt repositories on DVD, is anyone aware of
> such .iso files for developer tools (8.04 compatible)? It'd be great to just
> use Synaptic with a DVD.
>
Repo on a usb disk/stick? That way you can take it to another machine
t
How would you propose to solve it? Change the permissions on files to
the person logged in? Add a user account with the matching UID to match
those found on the files, then log that user in? Change world
permissions on the file, so everyone can access it? I think you can see
the silly-ness behind t
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What your brother doesn't realize, is that when you take files from
> system to system, OS to OS, you're going to encounter these headaches.
> It's just the way these things go.
It doesn't have to. Ubuntu knows which devic
I wouldn't normally comment, but I think it's important to put some
perspective to the earlier argument about users creating noise on the list.
When someone with an @ubuntu.com address responds to a reasonable
question with a flame like this, without actually suggesting a solution
to the important
This is a user support issue. Ubuntu already has a user group for
accessing removeable devices. Clearly his brother is not a member of this
group. Add him to it.
Next time you he should email ubuntu-users for support, not the developer
list.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Remco wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21,
The real answer is to use mount options.
ADFS, AFFS, FAT (and variants), HFS, HPFS, ISO9660, and UDF all support the
'gid' option. Combine that with the 'users' option, and anyone could mount and
access files as long as they were in the right group (floppy, plugdev and disk
come to mind.
As fo
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:40:38AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> How would you propose to solve it? Change the permissions on files to
> the person logged in? Add a user account with the matching UID to match
> those found on the files, then log that user in? Change world
> permissions on the file,
Hi,
I am trying to use the cairo-directfb package (and the -dev version). It
works fine with a manually-made Makefile. But when I try to use libtool
it never works. I tried all sorts of settings to libtool (so I can use
kdevelop to debug my thing) but so far no luck. I tried -static to link
ev
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. There are a number of ways
already available to have the functionality you seek. You will need to
leverage both the HAL fdi for the device you're trying to automount and a
script to fix the permissions on a that disk. This is what makes linux so
great,
Jesse Ruffin [2008-11-21 11:46 -0500]:
> The real answer is to use mount options.
Exactly.
> ADFS, AFFS, FAT (and variants), HFS, HPFS, ISO9660, and UDF all
> support the 'gid' option. Combine that with the 'users' option
You mean the "uid" option, like the vfat and ntfs file systems have.
> As
2008/11/21 Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> For removable drives, once the kernel supports uid=/gid= options for
> hfs+ (Mac) and ext3 (other Linuxes), they can be trivially applied
> automatically in hal if a device is detected as removable. The hard
> part is to get kernel support for it.
Thi
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:33 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Jesse Ruffin [2008-11-21 11:46 -0500]:
> > The real answer is to use mount options.
>
> Exactly.
>
> > ADFS, AFFS, FAT (and variants), HFS, HPFS, ISO9660, and UDF all
> > support the 'gid' option. Combine that with the 'users' option
>
> Yo
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:42 +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 2008/11/21 Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > For removable drives, once the kernel supports uid=/gid= options for
> > hfs+ (Mac) and ext3 (other Linuxes), they can be trivially applied
> > automatically in hal if a device i
Alan Pope pisze:
> 2008/11/21 Terry Sikes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I did run across the idea of apt repositories on DVD, is anyone aware of
>> such .iso files for developer tools (8.04 compatible)? It'd be great to just
>> use Synaptic with a DVD.
>>
>
> Repo on a usb disk/stick? That way you can t
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 10:50 +, Alex Cockell wrote:
> As well as a field-test team, may I suggest that updates are subject to
> a release-candidate-with-positive-signoff-and-test-battery process?
All updates go to the -proposed repo. If any regressions are reported
against these -proposed upda
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 12:46 +, tchomby wrote:
> He could
> even create a new user with the username used on the mac and access them that
> way.
No, that wouldn't work. The username doesn't matter. The user ID is
what matters.
--
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> This should not be done unconditionally.
The mac os solution is to have a 'enforce permissions on this device' option
(in the info/properties of the device). maybe this could be implemented in a
similar way to the .is_audio_player file [0].
A safer way to back
Martin Pitt wrote:
> For removable drives, once the kernel supports uid=/gid= options for
> hfs+ (Mac) and ext3 (other Linuxes), they can be trivially applied
> automatically in hal if a device is detected as removable. The hard
> part is to get kernel support for it.
They already are applied by h
Terry Sikes wrote:
> What's the recommended method for setting up an Ubuntu 8.04 system as
> a development station with no Internet access? I installed from CD,
> and got gcc, but no g++, gcj or other goodies. I'd also like to get
> Octave going on the system, but it didn't appear to be on the
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