-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bonsoir, I plugged an usb drive on my computer and, instead of being mounted as usual, a popup window opened claiming that some application was trying to mount a device and... I had to enter the root password!!! What's this mess? The story is not finished: I discovered a config tool for this in System>Prefs>system>permission which run the polkit-gnome-authorization. *As a simple user*, not root, I found a line: "mount file systems from removable drive" for which the permission is set, by default, to: "No" for everybody. *as simple user* (again), I changed this permission to yes for everybody!!!! I am wondering what is the meaning of this: either it is something that everybody can do and no tool is needed, or it is important that only root can modify some system wide config and, in that case this tool is a nonsense. Same thing as for the gnome keyring manager (see another post on this list): I cannot disable it and everytime I want to ssh a remote host a popup ask me for a password, I refuse to give a password (I was not asked to define one) and I can ssh.... For what purpose are these stupid tools? I tried to yum remove these things but it is impossible: so many packages depend on them: scim!!! evince!!! totem!, eog, f-spot.... In f11, shall we be forced to set a password to log-in, another to use emacs, another to use TeX, another to see the result of what we have typed with emacs/tex... Is this security policy a heritage from Bush administration? - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2413 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknAA1MACgkQdE6C2dhV2JUlsgCfT43EmsUt9LT75v8TFExCdRpd qCoAoIxhnSMb11NUGMsVArdxgM2nXo3t =fG0a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
