Camera mounting

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/07/2014 05:15 PM, lee wrote:
> Tim<ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>  writes:
>
>> >Allegedly, on or about 06 July 2014, lee sent:
>>> >>Why would anyone but root be allowed to mount something?
>> >
>> >Because*I*  put a CD, DVD, USB drive, into*my*  computer, logged in as
>> >*myself*...
> That doesn't mean that you should be allowed to mount it when you're not
> root.  And your computer doesn't know/who/  added some media, does it.
>

I'm using F 19 with Xfce.  If I insert a flash drive, it's mounted 
without asking for a password because that's what I told Xfce how I 
wanted this handled.  The same thing goes for my mp3 player and camera. 
  For various reasons, I have a partition on my hard drive that's not in 
/etc/fstab.  It doesn't get mounted at boot although there's an icon for 
it on my desktop.  Mounting it requires the root password, although 
oddly enough I can un-mount it without any password.  If this were a 
server, things would probably be set up differently but considering that 
I'm the only person who uses this computer, it's configured more for 
convenience than security.  Each person's needs are different, and this 
is just another example where *nix lets people do things their own way 
instead of insisting that there's One True Way.