Bug#439409: gparted: Gparted stupidly refuses to run if not root

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Stummvoll
severity 439409 important thanks Hi, this report may is older. However I think thats a problem too. There a scenarios I want to use partition tools without root. The first one is the floppy-case as Stefan said. Another scenario is when I want to create or partition an image which exists as file i

Bug#439409: Bug 439409 - gparted: Gparted stupidly refuses to run if not root

2010-01-02 Thread Curtis Gedak
Hi Stefan, Are you sure that you can simply "cat /dev/sdg" on your GNU/Linux distribution? This non-root user can already cause the same serious consequences without gparted (e.g. with a simple cat /dev/sdg). On my ubuntu 8.04 system, the underlying devices are not open to unprivileged us

Bug#439409: gparted: Gparted stupidly refuses to run if not root

2009-12-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
reopen 439409 thanks >> The subject says it all: if you try to run gparted as a non-root user, >> gparted just puts up a message saying "you must be root". Thing is, I >> wanted to repartition an external device to which my non-root user has >> read/write access. > That's the way gparted was disi

Bug#439409: gparted: Gparted stupidly refuses to run if not root

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
Package: gparted Version: 0.3.3-2 Severity: normal The subject says it all: if you try to run gparted as a non-root user, gparted just puts up a message saying "you must be root". Thing is, I wanted to repartition an external device to which my non-root user has read/write access. Stef