RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

soralx at cydem.org soralx at cydem.org
Wed Apr 5 05:54:41 UTC 2006


> So why not have GNOME/KDE create mount points for the user if
> vfs.usermount is 1? Since FreeBSD uses devfs, every device in /dev that
> usually represents a device with removable media can assumed to be
> present in hardware. GNOME/KDE could be patched to create mount points
> somewhere in the user's home directory, and issue a 'mount device mount_point' 
> instead of 'mount mount_point' if the user clicks the device icon.

pardon my ignorance, but how any of those methods described earlier may
be superior to simply using sudo?

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