Re: Introducing pmount in Debian / New plugdev group

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:50:39 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> However, I was not satisfied with this solution because of several
> reasons:


[Several excellent reasons]

 
> So the Ubuntu approach is a bit different: we let hal run as normal
> user, do not modify /etc/fstab at all and instead use a program
> called 'pmount' (policy mount) that allows normal users to mount
> removable devices without an /etc/fstab entries.


All sounds good.

Have you heard that mount's upstream is looking for someone to adopt mount
(and the rest of util-linux)?  Interested?

-- 
Thomas Hood