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Author: Dave Turner
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Subject: Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager
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, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Steve Litt
> > > <slitt@??? <mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com>> 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 people want it.

> >
> > Count me in, now we are three wanting it, including yourself.
>
> Well, I definitely want it. Not sure if I'm counted in the original
> three, or if I make four.
>
> 2015-07-27 11:45 GMT+02:00 Jaromil <jaromil@???
> <mailto:jaromil@dyne.org>>:
> > 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 under a UNIX.
>
> No one is more paranoid when it comes to security than me. But as for
> the security risk of automount, I only see it as a problem if we are
> talking about a multi-user system in an organization. A single user at
> home is a likely scenario for many of us.
>
> Ideally, automount is something that a user should be able to easily
> configure. If you'd rather have click-to-mount or fully manual mount,
> that's fine. I don't see why it should be any more difficult than
> editing a text configuration file (or clicking a box in a gui) to
> change the setting.
>
> cheers,
> Robert
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