On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide test system. How do I get it to stop?
TIA
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide test system. How do I get it to stop?
See painstakingly ignored security bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251062
M.
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide test system. How do I get it to stop?
See painstakingly ignored security bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251062
M.
OK, thanks. Read thru bz and added comment, but don't see a work around for now. Is there one?
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 02:46:50PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide test system. How do I get it to stop?
See painstakingly ignored security bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251062
M.
OK, thanks. Read thru bz and added comment, but don't see a work around for now. Is there one?
You may try to hack hal policies; but all of this is rather vague so whatever specific I will say here may turn out to be wrong.
Michal
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide test system. How do I get it to stop?
See painstakingly ignored security bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251062
It's bizarre that that hasn't been fixed.
I was horrified to find my NTFS partitions mounted rw, I didn't pursue it because I had other things on my mind.
I don't trust Linux to write to NTFS, and I won't until I have a throw-away filesystem _and_ have verified it myself. Even then, I won't trust it much.
As for logging in as root, I can, and the extent to which it represents a security hazard depends on context and circumstances _I_ know with regard to my systems, but you folk don't. In the particular case where I found my NTFS filesystems mounted rw, I was running bleeding-edge, and had my rawhide system harmed itself, well that's the risk, but willfully exposing my Windows filesystems to increased risk by mounting them, not just ro but _rw_ is just not acceptable.
The software suppliers' role in this is to make their software as safe as they can, even when used by root, and provide the tools users need while not getting in their way.
Mounting filesystems just because you can is unsafe; prohibiting users from logging in as root is getting in the way.
Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
On boot, gnome mounts every partition I have on /media on my rawhide test system. How do I get it to stop?
TIA
Thanks to Ronald Warsow, I added the following and no longer get the desktop spam of mounted partitions:
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi to prevent this from happening, here's its contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false"> <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false"> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>
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