Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:37:11 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option Message-ID: <20060405133507.G15367@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060405120035.GA1372@dice.stsp.lan> References: <1144042356.824.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1144133238.9725.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20060404114547.GA1613@dice.stsp.lan> <200604042252.17806.soralx@cydem.org> <20060405120035.GA1372@dice.stsp.lan>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:52:17PM -0800, soralx@cydem.org wrote: > > > > > So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if > > > vfs.usermount is 1? > > pardon my ignorance, but how any of those methods described earlier may > > be superior to simply using sudo? > > Using sudo is a hack? :) Using sudo is using a small, well-inspected tool to do a well-defined job as part of a toolchain. Stringing such tools together is where the unix environment derives its expressive power from. So I'd second the question; I don't buy that aesthetic argument. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Solution: (n) a watered-down version of something neat.
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