On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:10 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 13:16:41 -0600, > "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Just out of curiosity... when are these being mounted? If we are talking > > about mounting a partition from a user session that's one thing and can > > easily make it user only accessible with a checkbox I guess. I'm > > wondering though, when you plug in a USB thumbdrive... don't all users > > have access? What's the difference here? Are we talking about system > > wide mounts like mine where only /home is encrypted?? > > This is where we should be going. Encryption is really irrelavent. Not necessarily. There's a case that the automount behaviour for an encrypted volume should be different from that of a non-encrypted volume. As I read it, it's also technically plausible, because you can know with 100% accuracy which user should have access to the encrypted volume - the user from whose session the passphrase was entered. This is not the case with unencrypted volumes. > The issue > should be if a removable device is inserted, who should have access to it > if it gets automounted. I would expect encrypted and unencrypted devices > to get the same treatment. The encrypted devices do already have a pop up, > so maybe that makes it not as much effort to ask a question when the device > is mounted. But I don't see otherwise why one would want to treat encrypted > and uncrypted removable devices differently. There's a technical issue; see above. And I can see a reasonable user expectation that on a multi-user system an encrypted volume should be mounted accessible only to the user who entered the passphrase, to be honest. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
