Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:42:04 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: DK <asdzxc111@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installer package like this ??? Message-ID: <20040729144204.GA53762@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040729055330.90694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040728171010.GA86397@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20040729055330.90694.qmail@web41007.mail.yahoo.com>
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I just need to set the record straight on this automount issue you keep ranting about... On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:53:30PM -0700, DK typed: [...] > > > Whats the purpose of having to manually set the system to automount ?? > > > as opposed to having it as a system install default ?? if there is an > > > advantage, I am sure its for the 0.01% of the user base > > > > It's more in the range of 99.9%. Automounting can be annoying like hell > > when you happen to accidentally insert media in your drives. It can > > also be insecure if you don't want anyone to use the machine you've > > installed to mount CD-ROMs, floppies or other media of their choise. > > Accidently ?? what ?? Like you were walking down a hall way, tripped & slipped > & accidenlty shoved a CD into the drive :)) No, more like you put a cd with sensitive data on it in the wrong tray of your 40+ identical rackmounted servers, exposing it to the wrong users on the wrong server. > I can put a CD into Windows 2000 & it has never been accessed unless I > explicitly do it. - I don't see the problem ?? You keep on measuring FreeBSD by MS Windows standards. Wrong. FreeBSD (and Unixlike OSses in general) are designed to be truly *multi-user* operating systems and their default settings will reflect that. Especially FreeBSD, which still is mostly used as a server OS, servicing many users. > - as for automounting, I think you are confusing this with AutoRUN for CD's > AFAIK - you cannot disable automounting of Floppys/CD in Windows 2000 And they call this a server platform? What a joke! Ruben
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