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Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?
Date 2015-10-04 17:20 +0200
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Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 04 October 2015 15:41:37 Richard Owlett wrote:
>> It may address the
>> one thing I've found most annoying while trying to move to Linux.
>> Users [*PLURAL*] and Groups [*PLURAL*] may make sense in a
>> universe of mainframes. Not so much in a setting where only one
>> individual has access.
>
> It makes sense in lots of situations, real life ones for schools, colleges,
> workplaces, families, single users attached to the Internet.  You can always
> achieve what you seem to want by always running as root.  So LInux can do
> what you want fine.  Let it also do what others want/need.
>

I don't always wish to "swat flies with 100mm cannon".
Or as old saying cautions "When all you have is a hammer, 
everything looks like a nail."

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How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-26 16:20 +0200
  Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-09-26 17:30 +0200
    Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-26 18:30 +0200
      Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-26 20:30 +0200
      Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-09-26 21:50 +0200
        Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-27 00:20 +0200
          Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-09-27 13:30 +0200
            Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-04 16:50 +0200
              Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 17:10 +0200
                Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-04 17:20 +0200
                Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 17:50 +0200
                Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-04 18:10 +0200

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