Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

Restricting access to USB thumb drive doesn't work

Bug #231280 reported by Bob Henz
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

In my admin account I unchecked the box saying "Allow access to external drives" for user X.

I then log on as user X and plug in a thumb drive and boom, it auto-mounts and opens.

Aren't USB thumb drives considered an external drive?

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Bob Henz (henz-2) wrote :

Sorry, more details.

I'm running ubuntu 7.10.

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Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale) wrote :

This is probably because HAL is used to automount drives. HAL is a process that is loaded on boot up.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

how is that a gnome-control-center issue? gnome-control-center has no such option and the description is not really clear

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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