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On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:19:19 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> > A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now |
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> > try for a general solution. |
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> The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. That is a |
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> true general solution; otherwise you end up like the author of |
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> calibre, with a security mess on his hands: |
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 |
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> If you dismiss the security implications of sudoing pmount, because |
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> you care only about *your* use cases, on *your* machine, by definition |
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> that is not a "general solution". |
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You should never need to sudo pmount, it is supposed to run as a normal |
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user. Walter is using sudo to run pumount, which is nothing like the |
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situation described in that bug. Even pmount avoids the situations |
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described in that bug because it is only capable of operating in /media. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. |
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