[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#812153: Bug#812153: Bug#812153: Bug#812153: policykit-1: allows ordinary users to mount filesystems

[Michael Biebl]

Am 21.01.2016 um 04:18 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 04:13 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> This behaviour has been since 2000 or so, since at least the
>> introduction of hal and pmount.
> 
> Then one has still some 30 years before where it has been different...

Right, since we had removable media 30 years ago.

> 
>> You don't gain anything security wise by not allowing removable media
>> to
>> be mounted. The only thing it will cause for sure is inconvenience.
> 
> As I told you before, this is not true,.. you may have easily have
> secured terminals where people can log in, but where they cannot e.g.
> physically access such devices.

In such a very specialised situation you can easily lock down the
configuration. For such a setup you will most likely need custom
configuration anyway to be secure.
A default configuration needs to usable by the majority of users.

>> Please don't reopen anymore, or I'll ask bts listmaster to block your
>> address.
> 
> Ah quite funny... "do as I want... or I use dictatorship methods"...
> 
> It's quite disturbing when a real issue is reported, that this is
> simply done away by threatening people.

There is no "real issue". Point.
You are making a big fuss for nothing and wasting everyones time, mine
included. I'm not willing to tolerate that.


Michael

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