>I'm not sure what the default policy should be though - most people are >happy about not having to go to the commandline to get access to their >partitions and some people have more or less valid security concerns. OK, I've had some time to think this over. Traditionally, the default is on the open - all inclusive side of things unless there is the possibility of damage. e.g., tcp_wrapper defaults to open, iptable defaults to open. You must intervene to secure the system. As long as the drives are only detected and mount points made, it don't have a problem. If the drives are *mounted*, I have a real problem. By mounting the drive, you may suddenly cause a drive to get fsck'ed by a newer program that oopses older kernels, or relabeled by SE Linux which will oops older kernels. No mounting! Even thought I have hand edited my fstab and hal made mount points, it appears not to have mounted the drives. Based on a suggestion from Jeff yesterday, I went and tuned my /etc/hal/hald.conf file for false, false, false. On next boot, the mount points disappeared. Then I re-installed hal. My config file was renamed hald.cond.rpmorig. :( There needs to be a %config(noreplace) for hald.conf in the spec file. Also, on first boot, hal ignores my wishes and puts the mount points there. I haven't tried a reboot yet to see if on second boot they go away. Not sure yet if this is a regression from yesterdays updates or just a first boot behavior. Next question, is there supposed to be a /media/cdrom mount point? or is it still /dev/cdrom? Or both? >Those files, hal device information files, or .fdi files, are meant to >contain *facts* about certain devices, e.g. this device that looks like >a mass storage device to the kernel is in fact really a mp3 player/ >camera/whatever. I am wondering about people that have /usr as nfs? I think that's why things that have a bearing on config keep a copy in /etc. For example, timezone data. The master copy is under /usr somewhere, but its copied to /etc. -Steve Grubb _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool
