Re: [kde] Permission to mount denied by Policy. What Policy?

On 08/24/2009 09:57 AM, Duncan wrote:
FWIW, I tend to view with suspicion any automatic mounting, etc. If I
want it mounted, I'll **** well /tell/ the system I want it mounted. As
such, I'm not too fond of all this new fangled HAL stuff, especially when
it tries to automount CDs elsewhere than the fstab config says they
should be mounted, thus interfering with k3b's disk verification step,
the problem I had a year or so ago. If it would have just left the ****
thing alone and let the normal fstab, etc configuration do its thing,
everything would have been fine, but no, hal had to get in the middle of
things and screw things up!

But of course, I'm running Gentoo, and have been running Linux since just
passed the turn of the century (2001), so am used to doing it manually
from way back then. I thus suppose it's someone natural that I'd view
the newcomer that's trying to interfere with the "proper" functioning of
things with a bit of suspicion. Newbie Ubuntu users and etc, fresh from
MSWormOS, where such things are normally handled automatically -- with an
autorun that will "helpfully" install a virus or rootkit (rf: the Sony
rootkit fiasco) if the disk is setup that way -- will no doubt have a
rather different perspective, and appreciate the automatic handling that
I view with suspicion -- for good reason, given the problems it has
caused on MSWormOS. But to each his own, as they say... Just keep that
stuff away from me (tho I /did/ just recently configure xorg for input
hotplugging based on hal -- but keyboards and mice don't tend to be
malware carriers and give the machine viruses, etc -- tho of course the
behavior of the users behind those keyboards and mice just might do so!).

You're overreacting a bit and are perhaps even spreading panic.

I want to point out two things for everyone:

1) You're still responsible for mounting (by clicking on the icon).
If you don't click it, it doesn't get mounted.

2) HAL will *not* run any software from the mounted device (be it a
DVD/CD or a hard drive.) Even if things would get mounted without
your consent, no executables are run from that filesystem and thus
there's no "malware threat".

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