Edubuntu Bug Day

[Steve Rippl]

Scott Balneaves wrote:
> 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
>   
That is awesome!

Thank you!


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Steve Rippl
Technology Director
Woodland Public Schools
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