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Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group



On Nov 09, Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> wrote:

> We solved (4) by introducing a new group called 'plugdev'. Every user
> who is a member of this group can access hotpluggable devices (digital
> cameras, USB drives etc.). pmount can only be executed by members of
> this group (it is root:plugdev 750), hal runs in this group to be able
> to detect file systems (but it does not run in 'disk'), and udev
> assigns the 'plugdev' group to removable devices (static drives remain
> in group 'disk').
I'm not sure about what I should do as the udev maintainer. The default
udev configuration does not really know for sure if a given device is
removable.

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ciao, |
Marco | [9103 spz3eQziITnEo]

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