I understand the rationale of allowing some users control of their External devices to the extent of formatting, but there is no way I know of to restrict this ability if you didn't actually want them to do it.
With so many people these days storing important data on external storage devices, this mindset of treating external USB storage devices *differently* to internal storage now seems out of date to me. This mindset may have been valid from the days of floppy drives and even up until recently where USB storage was considered as a sort of second- class method of storing data, but times have changed and even though I can see this functionality as useful to the right people, having it as an unavoidable feature available to every class of Ubuntu user is just playing with fire. That is basically why I consider this a security issue, if some part of the definition of security means preventing users having the ability to permanently delete data on a system (that is not necessarily *their* data) when perhaps they should not have that ability. I'll just wait in the forums until a post pops up saying that "little Johnny formatted my 1TB external drive where we had all our kiddies movies stored on, even though I thought I created his account as a normal unprivileged user and only gave him read-only access to the files so he could just play them, please help me recover the files as they were really important to us". -- Non-admin users can format removable media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595823 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
