Edubuntu Bug Day

[Steve Rippl]

john wrote:
> One that isn't listed there that I would like to see fixed is getting
> removable drives (e.g. thumb drives and floppies mostly) on thin
> clients to be able to mount 700
> by default. Our users autheticate via AD so they all share the same
> user group. Consequently floppy drives and thumb drives show up on
> everyones desktop unless I apply the perl script fix
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LocaldevCommonGroupWorkaround
> The approach taken via the perl script is to used setuid to chown the
> mount to user:root, without really understanding the deep magic
> involved here, I'd merely suggest a permission change rather than an
> ownership change, and perhaps there's a way to not have to invoke
> suid?
>   
I'll second this one.  We have similar AD setup and a lab using old 
hardware with floppy drives.  Because all users are in the Domain Users 
group they all have a shortcut to each floppy in the lab on their 
Desktop.  Yes, each user sees 32 shortcuts!  Also, if a kid plugs in a 
usd drive everyone sees it.

Thanks for your efforts!

Steve

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Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
360 225 9451 x326