On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 05:16:14PM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: > To all > > > > In my fstab, there was a parameter called defaults, > > > > I appended a noauto as defaults,noauto to various lines and yes, > the drives no longer appear automounted. > > > > But as I can't do a mount via gnome. For example, selecting the drive in the > places > drop-down menu, I get a popup occurs to say that I am not authorized > to do a mount, only root can do it, but I do not (as I do in Fedora) > get a prompt to provide the root password.
Unless you specidy "user" as another option, users don't have the rights to mount, even if the user provides a complete mount command with all the dressing so the system shouldn't even have to look at the mount table. If gnome ignores that, perhaps a command-line mount command will still do it. > > > > Am I wrong to assume that Debian is really just for server use. No. But the main desktops/window managers are moving more and more to isolate the user from the internals, and, in so doing, are getting in the way as much as helping. Report bugs against the offending compnents. Sometimes bug reports actually get through to developers. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
