mount plugin

[Terry]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 12/22/06, Terry <teaman at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>     
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>>> JoeHill wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:32:32 +0100 (CET)
>>>> timystery at arcor.de got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>>>> Well, I am not gonna implement some "I'm a stupid user" options - this ain't
>>>>> a Windoze plugin.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I absolutely agree. That's why I asked if there was just something I could put
>>>> in the rcfile. <snip>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> This is really a non-issue.  1) Non-root users won't be able to unmount
>>> /, /home, etc.  2) Even root can't unmount a filesystem that's in use.
>>> Go ahead:  open a terminal, 'su' to root, and type 'umount /'.  Watch
>>> while it says "device is busy" and just ignores you.  If you unmount a
>>> filesystem that isn't in use, then... so what?  Nothing bad will happen.
>>>
>>>       -brian
>>>       
>> What I find curious is that, as a user, I cannot ordinarily mount a
>> partition on the hard drive.  Instead, I get the message: mount: only
>> root can do that
>>
>> Yet, using the plugin, I can mount any partition (except swap).  =-O
>>
>> It's very convenient for a single user but is it according to Hoyle?
>>     
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. The plugin can't "get around" OS
> security(*). If the plugin can mount and unmount then there must be
> some condition under which your OS allows users to do the mount (such
> as pmount or the dbus mount tools). I'm not real familiar with the
> mount plugin, so the details aren't at hand.

I don't know whether it's the OS or the PI, the CIA or the UN and I'm a 
single user so it doesn't matter to me at all.

All I can say is that using the plugin is the only way, to my knowledge, 
that I can mount a partition as user.

I cannot do that if I log in to Kde.

Nor can I mount a partition as user in Xfce via the command line interface.

If I use sudo in Xfce (which I just now attempted for the first time), I 
am asked for a password.  (Difficult for me, because I can never 
remember which password I'm supposed to give to use sudo.)


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