Hal question

Carlos Perelló Marín carlos.perello at canonical.com
Sun Sep 19 11:02:21 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 12:48 +0200, Michiel Sikkes wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 

Hi

> A tiny little hal question here. Why is hal started with the '--drop-
> privileges' argument. This way people can't make use of the automatic
> fstab update script and other things like creating mountpoints.

Ubuntu does not use that fstab update feature, we have pmount to handle
that.

Cheers.

> 
> Cheers,
> Michiel
> 

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