[Pkg-utopia-devel] pmount stuff

[Sjoerd Simons]

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Hi,

  So finally a mail on this list :).. I've been checking out pmount for sup=
port
  in debians g-v-m and hal.. Some things that came to mind:
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    * pmount in debian is currently executable by everyone, don't think tha=
ts
      very nice (Spoke to martin this afternoon, he's going to poll d-devel)

    * It seems that pmount just tries various filesystems, but g-v-m already
      knows the filesystem type from hal. Probably would be nice if we could
      give this info to pmount (i think trying several types causes at least
      kernel warnings)

    * According to pmounts documentations about umount:
      - <device> is mounted according to /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts with the
        calling user's uid

      but that isn't checked in the code. I'm able to umount every disk in
      /media as normal user...
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    * With hal 0.4.0 fstab-sync uses some policy information from the hal
      database, like whether it should be mounted sync and a suggested
      mountpoint.=20

      Would be nice if there was some way to use this info to pmount..
      But i don't think the setuid binary should link in hal, maybe a
      hal_pmount wrapper program ?=20

  Sjoerd
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