Dear Raman,
Thanks for your reply.
Are u telling me to change the permissions of the USB sticks whenever
inserted??
I don't find plugdev group on my server.
Thanks,
Avinash
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Raman.P <raam...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> -- On Fri, 7/8/09, Avinash Rao <avinash....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks for the links, i have read that documentation.
> >
> >
> > If the thin-client just gives the display with Keyboard and
> > mouse, why
> > should it mount usb's inserted on the server, coz on the
> > server some
> > other user account has logged in and his permissions should
> > be in
> > place and not of the user account on LTSP client, isn't it?
> > I am sorry
> > if this is sounding very basic. This sounds like a security
> > hole, what
> > if the administrator wants to use USB sticks on the
> > server? coz i
> > tried opening the usb sticks connected to the server on the
> > client and
> > it works!!
> It is not a security hole, it is the way unix/linux works. Once a user
> logins to server he gets access to all server devices. If you want
> to restrict, use file access permission to the device.
> For usb you can look at users in group plugdev(on debian atleast).
> Whoever part of this group alone gets permission to mount usb.
>
>
> Raman.P
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