External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/03/14 13:50, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 06:25:05 AM Ed Greshko wrote:
>> The GID/UID scheme has been around since the dawn of Unix.  Anyone cannot
>> chown, they need to be root.  It isn't, and never was intended, to be a
>> method of securing access to external drives.  If you need to secure access
>> to data on an external drive then you need to use encrypted partitions.
> It's like Linus's printer rant. You setup laptops for family member and they 
> regularly require root password for mundane tasks like hooking up a printer or 
> an external hard drive, etc.
>
That rant is out of date....  

You don't need root to do those tasks.   All that needs doing is placing the "family member" in the wheel group.  This is done at install time by a "checkbox".  Then all the user needs do is use their own password when prompted for "authentication" by the system.

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