[ale] Linux Distributions

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue May 17 16:50:53 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:58 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
>
> Neither of those even requires sudo. Any reasonably desktop-oriented 
> distro can be configured to allow normal users to mount removable media 
> and burn DVDs in no more time than configuring sudo requires.

Exactly.  But is that more secure?  If it is secure, how is it insecure
when done as user root?   I contest that it isn't, it is just easier as
root (no configuration necessary).  ;-)

-Jim P.



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