From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 14:40:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FED316A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:40:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F6343D64 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:40:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6TEg4jM054039; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:42:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Received: (from bulk@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i6TEg4rk054038; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:42:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mail25@bzerk.org) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:42:04 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: DK Message-ID: <20040729144204.GA53762@ei.bzerk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ruben de Groot , DK , Giorgos Keramidas , Remko Lodder , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040728171010.GA86397@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20040729055330.90694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040729055330.90694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: Remko Lodder cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:40:18 -0000 I just need to set the record straight on this automount issue you keep ranting about... On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:53:30PM -0700, DK typed: [...] > > > Whats the purpose of having to manually set the system to automount ?? > > > as opposed to having it as a system install default ?? if there is an > > > advantage, I am sure its for the 0.01% of the user base > > > > It's more in the range of 99.9%. Automounting can be annoying like hell > > when you happen to accidentally insert media in your drives. It can > > also be insecure if you don't want anyone to use the machine you've > > installed to mount CD-ROMs, floppies or other media of their choise. > > Accidently ?? what ?? Like you were walking down a hall way, tripped & slipped > & accidenlty shoved a CD into the drive :)) No, more like you put a cd with sensitive data on it in the wrong tray of your 40+ identical rackmounted servers, exposing it to the wrong users on the wrong server. > I can put a CD into Windows 2000 & it has never been accessed unless I > explicitly do it. - I don't see the problem ?? You keep on measuring FreeBSD by MS Windows standards. Wrong. FreeBSD (and Unixlike OSses in general) are designed to be truly *multi-user* operating systems and their default settings will reflect that. Especially FreeBSD, which still is mostly used as a server OS, servicing many users. > - as for automounting, I think you are confusing this with AutoRUN for CD's > AFAIK - you cannot disable automounting of Floppys/CD in Windows 2000 And they call this a server platform? What a joke! Ruben