Bug 6245

Summary:	Needing root password for mounting drives
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joe Heaton <joedeso.heaton>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	2	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Joe Heaton 2012-05-31 14:44:13 CEST

Bad idea, the distro will get "torvalded" like openSUSE. Sorry if I missed any security options that disabled this but I don't think it's a good thing to have on by default even if it can be disabled, seems too much like a corporate desktop feature

Comment 1 Sander Lepik 2012-05-31 14:47:43 CEST

What DE do you use? How did you start that DE?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => sander.lepik
Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages

Manuel Hiebel 2012-06-25 05:27:36 CEST

Severity: enhancement => normal

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-11-07 21:51:37 CET

Over 5 months later, still no reply, so closing as OLD

@ Joe
Maybe it helps if you give those drives mount points while installing Mageia from the DVD after choosing either 
A) "custom disk partitioning" or
B) "use existing partitions
in this screen http://doc.mageia.org/installer/2/en/content/doPartitionDisks.html

you can then add mount points for them here:
for A): http://doc.mageia.org/installer/2/en/content/diskdrake.html or
for B): http://doc.mageia.org/installer/2/en/content/ask_mntpoint_s.html

They'll then be mounted every time you boot Mageia.


Besides, *after* installing Mageia you can still add mount points by starting MCC (Mageia Control Center) and then choosing: Local disks --> Manage disk partitions
http://docteam.mageia.nl/en/MCC/content/mcc-localdisks.html


Feel free to reopen this bug and to further explain the problem if you think I'm wrong to close it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => marja11
Resolution: (none) => OLD