Re: [SLUG] Sudo and passwords

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 18:53:59 EDT


On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:25:41PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > > I have sudo installed on my wife's machine, and a graphical menu in X to
> > > allow her (as a regular user) to mount, unmount
> >
> > automount does that, and easier than sudo.
>
> I _hate_ automount. It doesn't work well with mc (change directory to
> the directory at which things are supposed to be mounted, and there's
> nothing there). Nor does it reliably work with other X file managers my
> wife has used. As far as I'm concerned, it is well and truly broken.
>
> </RANT>

Hmm, haven't used mc on a file on an automouted filesystem. (I doubt his
wife uses mc, also.) amd?

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