Re: [SLUG] Sudo and passwords

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 18:16:42 EDT


On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:25:41PM -0400, Eben King wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > I have sudo installed on my wife's machine, and a graphical menu in X to
> > allow her (as a regular user) to mount, unmount
>
> automount does that, and easier than sudo.
>

I _hate_ automount. It doesn't work well with mc (change directory to
the directory at which things are supposed to be mounted, and there's
nothing there). Nor does it reliably work with other X file managers my
wife has used. As far as I'm concerned, it is well and truly broken.

</RANT>

Paul
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