[Slackbuilds-users] HAL 'plugdev' system-group (ivman/pmount)

Patrick J. Volkerding volkerdi at slackware.com
Wed May 16 21:29:19 UTC 2007


Menno Duursma wrote:
> Besides one might not want to allow (say a student) to burn cds, but
> to copy some docs from usb is fine.

I'm not arguing for the "cdrom" group still, but I find that scenario 
hard to imagine.  A USB flash stick is also a writable device.  If a 
user is allowed to write to removable media, what's the difference what 
kind of media it is?  :-)

All the best,

Pat



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