john wrote: > One that isn't listed there that I would like to see fixed is getting > removable drives (e.g. thumb drives and floppies mostly) on thin > clients to be able to mount 700 > by default. Our users autheticate via AD so they all share the same > user group. Consequently floppy drives and thumb drives show up on > everyones desktop unless I apply the perl script fix > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LocaldevCommonGroupWorkaround > The approach taken via the perl script is to used setuid to chown the > mount to user:root, without really understanding the deep magic > involved here, I'd merely suggest a permission change rather than an > ownership change, and perhaps there's a way to not have to invoke > suid? > I'll second this one. We have similar AD setup and a lab using old hardware with floppy drives. Because all users are in the Domain Users group they all have a shortcut to each floppy in the lab on their Desktop. Yes, each user sees 32 shortcuts! Also, if a kid plugs in a usd drive everyone sees it.
Thanks for your efforts! Steve -- Steve Rippl Technology Director Woodland Public Schools 360 225 9451 x326 -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
