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Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:52:17PM -0800, soralx@cydem.org wrote:
> > 
> > > So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if
> > > vfs.usermount is 1?
> > pardon my ignorance, but how any of those methods described earlier may
> > be superior to simply using sudo?
> 
> Using sudo is a hack? :)

Using sudo is using a small, well-inspected tool to do a well-defined 
job as part of a toolchain. Stringing such tools together is where the 
unix environment derives its expressive power from. So I'd second the 
question; I don't buy that aesthetic argument.

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jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/
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