On 8/27/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 16:54 +0930, Tim wrote: > > Paul Johnson: > > > You are making this way too hard. Even if I could figure it out, I > > > could never teach a part time lab assistant. I can't create an ever > > > more complicated chain of tools and scripts for things like this > > > because at some point an ordinary human will have to administer these > > > systems, possibly adding users with a Fedora tool like > > > system-config-users. > > > > I would imagine that there's a way to specify default groups to be added > > to. And I'm fairly certain that someone would have made a way to easily > > modify batches of existing users. There are some tools around for > > systems configuration, darned if I can recall the name of one of them at > > the moment, other than something beginning with "s". No, I don't mean > > something like system-config-whatever, there's a third-party package. > > Sab... sat... I can't remember. > > Sabayon. I'm using it at our school to configure a universal desktop > setup for all our students. It doesn't have anything to do with adding > or removing users from groups, though. > > Jonathan > I just think there is a mistake or inconsistency in the way Fedora is set up. Why not let ordinary users access /dev/fuse from the command line? They are not allowed to type "sshfs user@system: mounpoint" but they are allowed to do it through a GUI in either Gnome or KDE. Users can sshfs mount a drive inside nautilus by typing in a URL ssh://user@system: And inside konqueror, the URL is fish://user@system: Why not allow the command line mount as well?? I never did understand why Fedora only lets root run "mount" but it lets ordinary users -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
