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Date:      Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:52:17 -0800
From:      soralx@cydem.org
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option
Message-ID:  <200604042252.17806.soralx@cydem.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan>
References:  <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1144133238.9725.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan>

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> So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if
> vfs.usermount is 1? Since FreeBSD uses devfs, every device in /dev that
> usually represents a device with removable media can assumed to be
> present in hardware. GNOME/KDE could be patched to create mount points
> somewhere in the user's home directory, and issue a 'mount device mount_point' 
> instead of 'mount mount_point' if the user clicks the device icon.

pardon my ignorance, but how any of those methods described earlier may
be superior to simply using sudo?

Timestamp: 0x44335A44
[SorAlx]  http://cydem.org.ua/
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