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   From: "Laszlo Lebrun"    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:05:27 +0100   
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   Florian Diesch wrote:   
   > Michel Firholz  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:07:01 +0000, SINNER wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> Then you are running as root or changed a default as only root can   
   >>> mount / unmount volumes in Ubuntu   
   >>>   
   >> Nope.   
   >> Only root can mount / unmount *fixed* volumes in Ubuntu.   
   >> If a device is removable, you can unmount it without being root,   
   >> everything else were stupid.   
   >   
   > It's not about fixed or removable. A user can only unmount volumes he   
   > has mounted. Fixed volumes usually are mounted at boot time by root so   
   > ordinary users can't unmount them. Removable drives usually are   
   > mounted by users, either manually from CLI or some GUI or   
   > automatically by HAL or something similar, so that very same user can   
   > unmount them (but others can't).   
   >   
   you seem to lack some consistency, do you?:   
   >>> "as only root can mount / unmount volumes in Ubuntu".   
   Removables drives are mounted automatically, (OK, by a deamon acting as an    
   user, but who cares?)    
      
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