-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 January 2004 16:16, Robin Laing wrote: > Alexandre Strube wrote: > > I'm ok with security concerns, but claim security reasons for not > > enabling cd-recording is too much for me. Can you imagine if the same > > happened to floppies? > > Actually I can. > > Our local college is removing floppies from their computers and all > users must use USB sticks. Can't make ANY sense of that... what is the security improvement from moving from floppy to USB removable storage? Speed (well, on read), storage density, reliability, sure... but security? They both contain filesystems that can contain anything. > It may be an idea that future versions of Fedora or RH have a tool to > setup device access (USB Floppie CD DVD modem etc.) as part of > administrators tool kits. Put all the devices into their own group > and setup group access. This would be a nice default configuration > and make it easier for the "home user" as well as system administrators. That would be nice... fiddling with hotplug is really not ideal for people who want GUI administration of rights. And hotplug AFAIK still does not come and change rights on devices that were plugged in on boot, those guys remain root-only. - -Andy - -- Find your answer without waiting for replies.... Searchable list archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABW0XjKeDCxMJCTIRAmQ3AJ4pV2PwDsz664v2sMmRAwXtnbFk6wCeN7o8 A0IHNLcO6oOLsYzPAJ2NsZI= =hC6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
