[CLUG] Microsoft's failings/network monitoring

[Collins_Paul at emc.com]

> > Only root can mount devices.

After this point, I should have said "except if there are user entries for
said devices in /etc/fstab".

> >  The permissions on devices 
> > should always be
> > 660; "other" should never have access.
> Quite, the app should be capable of setuid root to do this. 
> My point is
> that on a single-user laptop, an interface like a GUI which leaves the
> FDD and CDD inaccessible to the non-root user is just badly designed.

Well, I would class this as a problem with the way the OS was set up, not
the GUI.  The GUI isn't broken in a way that renders normally accessible
devices inaccessible.  The OS is configured as such.