On Sb, 20 dec 14, 19:50:51, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Good question. It feels like we have come full circle. That was the > way it was before the introduction of devfs and udev. It appears that > things now have returned to the way it was before udev. Which won't > bother the old-school Unix folks because we already lived through that > and already know how to deal with it. But why haven't the next > generation started complaining about it? If it works for them, then > how? The changelog says they are obsolete. But then what is the > replacement for them? If my understanding is correct, "normal" read/write permissions are handled by udisks and should work regardless of whether a user happened to be the first one set up (usually by debian-installer) or not. Whether it is a good idea to restrict writing to the raw device only to root-equivalent users is a different question. On one hand I don't think it's such a big burden to use su/do or similar for this type of operation, on the other hand it's slightly easier to pick the wrong device and destroy your data. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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