[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#574516: ltspfs: USB stick did not mount on server

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retitle 574516 ltspfs: requires user to be in the fuse group
severity 574516 wishlist
clone 574516 -1
retitle -1 ltspfs: issue KDE popups
user debian-edu at lists.debian.org
usertag -1 + debian-edu
thanks

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:38:06AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > some things to check:
> > 
> > * fuse module is loaded
> > * /dev/fuse is writeable by group fuse
> 
> Both ok.
> 
> > * user is in fuse group
> 
> This is not OK.  The user is not in the fuse group.  

ah, well, that's expected behavior. ltspfs is a fuse filesystem, and will not
work without permissions in the fuse group.


> I investigated,
> and the reason is that the pam_group module is not enabled.
> pam-auth-update do not have support for pam_group yet.  This is bug
> report in #370346.  Can ltspfs be configured to use
> consolekit/policykit instead?  It would be better to get this working
> out of the box without pam_group.

that would be nice, but would really require getting fuse filesystems to work
with policykit/consolekit in general, rather than specifically ltspfs.

 
> Aftet activating pam_group using the patch in #370346, the user was in
> the fuse group after login, and the mounting happened on the server.

good.


> No KDE popup showed up, thought. :(

splitting this into a separate issue- please follow up to the new bug number
with KDE popup issues.


> >> but would prefer a popup in KDE as well.
> > 
> > this seems like a separate issue, really. you might be able to use
> > the ltspfs-mounter.d hooks. see
> > /usr/share/doc/ltspfs/examples/kde-desktop-icons for an example
> > hook.
> 
> A popup really should be the default in KDE.  The user experience suck
> without it.

i do not knowing what a KDE popup even is. is it a filemanager thing? an
info/message system? is there a command that can be run to trigger a popup?


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