On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 08:46:01AM -0500, Phillip Susi <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'm not sure this can be considered a bug.
Ugh.
> There are several ways the user could have the filesystem mounted in a
> non temporary manner and if the permissions of the filesystem allow them
> access, then they can access it.
As you say, there are several ways, some where the user can choose to
make the files accessible and some where she can choose to not make them
available.
The point is that the user should be in control of whether files are
accessible to other users or not.
gparted doesn't allow that choice, and what's worse, it's not even obvious
that it potentially makes files available that normally wouldn't. Resizing a
filesystem should not expose files to other users that normally wouldn't.
Your argument could be applied to users homedirectories as well - if
gparted temporarily did "chmod 777 ~" it wouldn't be a bug according to
your logic as well.
Or maybe I misunderstood you, but it seems you are saying "since the user
could choose to make files available to other users, it's not a bug that
gparted silently does it without asking or notifying the user that it would
do so".
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