Hi Thimothy >Понедельник, 8 сентября 2025, 19:21 +03:00 от Timothy Gaskell ><[email protected]>: > >Dear FreeBSD documentation whizzes, > >I've only been daily-driving FreeBSD for a little less than a year, so I'm not >knowledgeable enough to be writing documentation, but from the perspective of >someone who has encountered and overcome beginners' problems, I have a >suggestion that I think will help smooth the way for others: > >Chapter 8 of the FreeBSD handbook, which covers installing desktop >environments, should also cover setting up some basic device permissions most >desktop users want (or refer them to a different chapter for this if more >appropriate). > >At present following the instructions to install KDE in section 8.2 results in >a system where you have a graphical file manager but cannot use it to mount >and unmount CDs, DVDs, and thumb drives -- actions that are deservedly >privileged but that many desktop users need and expect to be able to do. I >imagine the steps for other desktops have the same issue. > >Users such as myself with existing experience in some other UNIX-like >environment will correctly guess that the missing features are due to >permissions they haven't set up, but they won't know which permissions or >which man pages to look at. KDE in particular requires not just appropriate >permissions set in /dev/ but also entries added to a config file for polkit -- >a subject the Handbook currently does not cover at all. > >Adding a how-to for this common task will both rescue the user experience for >people not yet deep enough into the technical world to immediately think, "I >should Google for some arcane config entry that fixes this," and encourage >people to follow actual best practices like giving enhanced privileges to >administrative groups like operator or wheel rather than just removing all >security guardrails on removable media. > Can you shortly write, what information is desirable to include into this additional HOWTO? What troubles you met and how you solved them? Best regards, Vladlen Popolitov
