Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:48:16PM -0800, Steve Rippl wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Problem: AD is broken > Result: work for me to work around AD's brokenness. > > ok, I have a fix for it, that basically involved making ltspfs handle > permissions improperly to satisfy AD's stupidity. > > We'll get it integrated on the 12th. > > Scott > That is awesome!
Thank you! -- 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
