Edubuntu Bug Day

[Scott Balneaves]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:48:16PM -0800, Steve Rippl wrote:
> 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.

Problem: AD is broken
Result: work for me to work around AD's brokenness.

ok, I have a fix for it, that basically involved making ltspfs handle
permissions improperly to satisfy AD's stupidity.

We'll get it integrated on the 12th.

Scott

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