Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:26:41 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> 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.
Probably even easier with swatch, recently mentioned on the list:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4776
> Doug.
Celejar
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