On 8/27/07, Jonathan Dieter jdieter@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 16:54 +0930, Tim wrote:
Paul Johnson:
You are making this way too hard. Even if I could figure it out, I could never teach a part time lab assistant. I can't create an ever more complicated chain of tools and scripts for things like this because at some point an ordinary human will have to administer these systems, possibly adding users with a Fedora tool like system-config-users.
I would imagine that there's a way to specify default groups to be added to. And I'm fairly certain that someone would have made a way to easily modify batches of existing users. There are some tools around for systems configuration, darned if I can recall the name of one of them at the moment, other than something beginning with "s". No, I don't mean something like system-config-whatever, there's a third-party package. Sab... sat... I can't remember.
Sabayon. I'm using it at our school to configure a universal desktop setup for all our students. It doesn't have anything to do with adding or removing users from groups, though.
Jonathan
I just think there is a mistake or inconsistency in the way Fedora is set up.
Why not let ordinary users access /dev/fuse from the command line?
They are not allowed to type "sshfs user@system: mounpoint" but they are allowed to do it through a GUI in either Gnome or KDE.
Users can sshfs mount a drive inside nautilus by typing in a URL ssh://user@system:
And inside konqueror, the URL is fish://user@system:
Why not allow the command line mount as well??
I never did understand why Fedora only lets root run "mount" but it lets ordinary users