Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:23:38PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Just don't do the auto mount thing. ?Do it the old fashioned way with an
> > entry in fstab for the device in question and the 'user' option. ?Then
> > you plug in the stick, open a term, tail dmesg to see what device it is,
> > then mount it's mount point.
>
> I don't think I can explain that to my wife..
> I could do that, but she never would. That's the whole point of automounting,
> so the user doesn't have to figure all that stuff out.
Write a script that takes the dmesg, then prompts you to plug in your
stick, then diffs the dmesg and greps the sd* to which it is assigned,
then mounts that.
Shouldn't be too hard.
Doug.
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