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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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> > 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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> 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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> 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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Regards, |
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David |