From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 5 12:49:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 B125216A422 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:49:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de) Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (einhorn.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E79343D6B for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:49:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de) X-Envelope-From: stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de Received: from dice.stsp.lan (brln-d9ba6803.pool.mediaWays.net [217.186.104.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k35CmiDI024963 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:48:48 +0200 Received: by dice.stsp.lan (nbSMTP-1.01-cvs) for uid 1001 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:48:40 +0200 From: Stefan Sperling To: Jan Grant Message-ID: <20060405124840.GA1696@dice.stsp.lan> References: <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1144133238.9725.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan> <200604042252.17806.soralx@cydem.org> <20060405120035.GA1372@dice.stsp.lan> <20060405133507.G15367@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060405133507.G15367@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Spam-Score: (0.804) AWL,BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org 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 12:49:15 -0000 On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:37:11PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote: > 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? :) > > I don't buy that aesthetic argument. I wasn't serious. Sudo is fine by me as well. However, having something that is in the base system (and not in ports) to allow user mounts would be neat. Still, KDE and GNOME and even xorg are in ports as well, so that point is not a really strong one either. The only thing that still nags me about the sudo solution is that if you have to use sudo anyway, why was vfs.usermount even implemented in the first place? Using sudo makes it redundant. -- stefan http://stsp.in-berlin.de PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0