Re: concurrent X users and gnome-volume-manager
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:56:42PM +0000, Sam J wrote:
> Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:03:22AM +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
> >
> > > At any time on one machine (home machines running Debian unstable) I
> > > allow multiple users to have their X sessions running concurrently
> > > (e.g., on tty7, tty8, etc). I've not yet figured out how to get
> > > gnome-volume-manager working happily in this situation.
> >
> > My initial reaction is "sorry, you loose".
> >
> > You are in a situation where g-v-m just won't work. By automatically
> > mounting a device the first user that mounts the device "owns" it,
> > i.e. only this user and root can unmount this device (it's what the
> > "user" option does)
>
> Could g-v-m be configured to use the "users" option instead of "user"?
> According to mount(8), it should allow any user to unmount the device
> regardless of who mounted it.
yes, but this alone will not do. you also need to make the files available, so
a group and the right gid options would be best in this circunstance.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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