2012/4/19 Michael Hennebry <henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 16:48 -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >> >>> On 04/18/2012 04:45 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > It shows up in the file >>> manager; it's not mounted. >>> Why not? >>> >>> In F16, it was mounted. >>> >>> In Windows, it's mounted. >>> >>> In Mac OS, it's mounted. >>> >>> Why should F17 behave differently from F17 and from every other >>> mainstream OS people are familiar with? >>> >>> What is the justification for this different, unexpected, >>> non-intuitive behavior? >>> >> >> The arguments are really going downhill here. I'm not overly interested >> in wading into this, but I'll just say that whenever we do something >> automatically, somebody will get mad. In the past, auto-mounting (and >> even just automatically sniffing) of media has been construed as a >> security issue.. >> > > How hard would it be to make the behaviour configurable? > > Should removable devices attached before boot be mounted before login? > Should removable devices attached after boot be mounted before login? > Should removable devices attached during a session be mounted > automatically? > Should removable devices mounted during a > session be mounted in a user-specific location? > > The behaviour for non-removable devices, > e.g. partitions, is somewhat configurable. > Which partitions are mounted at boot time is > determined by options given during install. >
one possible starting point is to mount any removable device as a neutral user (nobody?) with read only access for everybody, *if* there's no other user logged into a X session. in this way, a network server can still offer the files without creating unneeded security risks implied by mounting as any particular real user (like root). the fstab workaround can work but imagine a fstab with as many lines as removable devices a user has (think how many optical disks, as an example.)
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