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From: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nautilus-admin
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:19:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt57-wLHGSLfdE_B1wswPoz=apc4riY1SrCTznx2HGdgukA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab375861-efed-bbec-8a9c-f8a477ffaa56@posteo.de>

Hi Gottfried,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:38 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-13  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-12 14:38 nautilus-admin Gottfried
2023-04-12 14:41 ` nautilus-admin (
2023-04-12 14:54   ` nautilus-admin Wojtek Kosior via
2023-04-12 15:27   ` nautilus-admin Gottfried
2023-04-13  4:06     ` nautilus-admin carl hansen
2023-04-13  4:19 ` Felix Lechner via [this message]
2023-04-13 15:24   ` nautilus-admin Gottfried
2023-04-13  6:51 ` nautilus-admin Marek Paśnikowski
     [not found] ` <a154649c-8cc6-4918-8ecf-8edfba209379@trilingual.eu>
2023-04-13 15:26   ` nautilus-admin Gottfried

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