From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 5 05:54:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42F516A429 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 05:54:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0664543D78 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 05:54:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.184]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IX8004NRIZ66LC0@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:52:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IX80021HIZ6VGH0@pd5mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:52:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx.cydem.org ([24.87.27.3]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IX8000ZNIZ6W3G0@l-daemon> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:52:18 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:52:17 -0800 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <200604042252.17806.soralx@cydem.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1144133238.9725.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:54:41 -0000 > 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/ ridin' VN1500-B2