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   From: Florian Diesch    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:34:16 +0100   
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   "Laszlo Lebrun"  wrote:   
      
   > 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?:   
      
   I don't think so.   
      
   >>>> "as only root can mount / unmount volumes in Ubuntu".   
      
   That was written by SINNER, not by me.   
      
   > Removables drives are mounted automatically, (OK, by a deamon acting as an    
   > user, but who cares?)    
      
   I wrote "Removable drives usually are mounted by users, either manually   
   [...]  or automatically by HAL or something similar".   
      
      
      Florian   
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