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On Tuesday 22 February 2011 07:33:45 David Relson wrote: |
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> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:37:06 +0000 |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:01:25 -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> > > > pmount is supposed to be run as a user and it mounts the |
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> > > > filesystem owned by the user running it. If you only have a |
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> > > > single user, you could call pmount with su. If you have multiple |
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> > > > users, you should be letting a desktop tool handle the mounting |
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> > > > anyway. |
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> > > |
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> > > I've heard "pmount ... as a user" before, but never understood what |
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> > > it meant. If "pmount ..." is run by a rule |
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> > > in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, how is it known what userid to |
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> > > use? Does "pmount ... as a user" assume particular settings in |
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> > > gnome, the kernel, or ??? |
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> > |
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> > pmount is meant to be run by a normal user, usually from an |
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> > automounter, as its main objective is to allow normal users to mount |
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> > removable devices without fstab rules, while udev rules are run as |
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> > root. So if you want it to run as a user from a udev rule you'll have |
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> > to use su, as in |
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> > |
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> > su youruser -c 'pmount /dev/PTY' |
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> Neil: |
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> I'm currently using "pmount -u 007 /dev/PTY" as this gives rwx |
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> permissions for root and group plugdev, which is adequate for my |
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> workstation (which only ever has me using it). |
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> I've seen that Ubuntu with Gnome automounts USB sticks. That seems |
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> pleasantly convenient and is done without any rules (such as I |
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> presently have) in /etc/udev/rules.d. Do you know what they're doing? |
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Gnome (and most other desktop environments) can be configured to auto-mount a |
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USB-drive, CDs,... |
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Gnome will, as is mentioned previously, probably use "pmount" started as the |
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current user which will then mount the drive with the user as the owner. |
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udev-rules are only really needed when you don't (want to) use an automounter |
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with your X-desktop. |
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I myself use KDE and there I can specify if I want a USB-drive mounted or not. |
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I believe I can also specify some USB-drives to auto-mount when I plug them |
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in. But I do prefer to be able to decide each time as sometimes I just plug in |
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my phone or camera to charge it. (My phone also acts like a usb-drive when so |
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configured) |
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