On Tue, 8 May 2012 22:16:19 +0100
Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> >>before people wonder any more whether redhat want Linux to be more
> >>difficult to use and
> >>support for financial reasons.
>
> I never said RedHat did anything. I simply regurgitated sentiments that
> are out there, that I believe
A fellow archer and someone who has actually been helpful to me in the
past seems to think I accused redhat purposefully of making things
difficult for users.
>>before people wonder any more whether redhat want Linux to be more difficult
>>to use and
>>support for financial reasons.
I never sai
On Tue, 8 May 2012 13:06:23 -0400
David Zeuthen wrote:
I've sent this seperately in a hope that you might not ignore it.
1./ Do you think installing udisks2 could have had anything to do with
the potential nautilus bug or intended change. i.e. only flashing up
rather than showing my mount points
On Tue, 8 May 2012 13:06:23 -0400
David Zeuthen wrote:
>The fact that you bring companies into
>the mix indicates a poor understanding of how open source communities
>work.
Companies. I was under the impression red hat funded policykit and
polkit directly. I wasn't the person to make the link be
Hey,
If you think I'm speaking on behalf of Red Hat on this mailing list,
then you are badly mistaken. The fact that you bring companies into
the mix indicates a poor understanding of how open source communities
work. The fact that I do work for Red Hat really has nothing to do
with this. The prob
On Tue, 8 May 2012 11:10:26 -0400
David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Better than factually wrong documentation and design. You didn't want
> > to answer any of the valid issues in the first place as others have
> > found.
>
> As I said in the initial mail to you, your so-called "valid issues"
> were eith
Hey,
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> Better than factually wrong documentation and design. You didn't want
> to answer any of the valid issues in the first place as others have
> found.
As I said in the initial mail to you, your so-called "valid issues"
were either incomp
On Tue, 8 May 2012 10:03:32 -0400
David Zeuthen wrote:
> factually wrong rants
Better than factually wrong documentation and design. You didn't want
to answer any of the valid issues in the first place as others have
found.
>> Well, if you have such needs, then perhaps you shouldn't be mounting
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> p.s. polkit's configuration system (multiple locations, lack of
> example, etc.) and documentation is an absolute mess and an embarassment
> to unix and also includes incorrect information about sudo, perhaps
> you know the people to shake up
On Mon, 7 May 2012 20:57:19 -0400
David Zeuthen wrote:
> > That would still allow the user davidz to unmount /boot / etc..
>
> Sure - there's no way for udisks to tell them apart.
>
There is fstab, there is udev which provides all that info
(removable or not) and the kernel, there's also the
Hi,
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> That would still allow the user davidz to unmount /boot / etc..
Sure - there's no way for udisks to tell them apart.
> That's not something that fits into my security policy?
Well, if you have such needs, then perhaps you shouldn't be
On Mon, 7 May 2012 17:57:30 -0400
David Zeuthen wrote:
> after of course putting in your own username in the Identity key.
> That's all there is to it.
>
That would still allow the user davidz to unmount /boot / etc.. That's
not something that fits into my security policy?
> >, it's
> > asking
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> I decided, that features gone, and after editing three files (two
> ineffectual), polkit is atleast unmounting, but before I could look at
> what that actually means in terms of what can be unmounted and
> restricting that to certain devices
On Mon, 7 May 2012 15:34:52 +0100
Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> 1./ Why would udisks want modify after safely remove via nautilus or
> thunar.
I'm guessing that's to say unmounted correctly and no fsck needed?
How do I preclude all the other permissions that I assume modify grants
like newfs?
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