[kde-linux] Unmounting USB Key (not root)

Gary Greene greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Tue Sep 27 14:30:33 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:36 am, James White wrote:
> On September 27, 2005 08:32 am, Ryan Nisly wrote:
> > whats wrong with using the "su" command?
> >
> > su
> > umount /dev/WonderKey1
>
> If I had a giant cross I would hold it before me to ward off your evil!!!!
> Give the root password to the users?!?!!!?
> ....where's my stake...I have some evil to kill here.

Though you COULD do that same thing with sudo. Just configure it to work only 
for select commands and to use their password, not root's.

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