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  1. Bug #882862
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 882862

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 882862] Re: Guest account can read/write in /media/

Fred [2011-11-02 20:23 -0000]:
> Martin,
> What do you mean with "This would break desired access..." ?

There might be scenarios where the current behaviour is expected, but
as I said this sounds like a corner case.

> The fix committed, is it a proper solution to the problem, or is it just
> a dirty quick fix?

It's a proper solution, from my POV.

> Shouldn't USB sticks be mounted in /mnt/ as they're probably just
> temporarily mounted?

No, /media/ is meant for this kind of devices. /mnt is meant for
administrators and manual mounting.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
> /media/ Mount points for removable media such as CD-ROMs (appeared in FHS-2.3).
> /mnt/ Temporarily mounted filesystems.

That's right, but as you have your drives in /etc/fstab, Ubuntu
obviously should respect that. Manual entries in fstab trump all
default policies :)