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Re: nautilus-admin
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Felix Lechner |
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Re: nautilus-admin |
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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:19:35 -0700 |
Hi Gottfried,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:38 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
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> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive,
> because it needs root rights.
Mounting hard drives is generally a privileged operation, but a lot of
people use external storage. I believe Gnome can make such storage
available to a user who is logged in. Have you looked into gvfs? [1]
FUSE stands for "file system in user space." [2]
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1]
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/kn-in/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/administering_the_system_using_the_gnome_desktop_environment/managing-storage-volumes-in-gnome_administering-the-system-using-the-gnome-desktop-environment
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace