Re: How to disable USB automounts

[Itay <debian@itayf.fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:38:03 -0600
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How to disable USB automounts
>
> Itay wrote:
> > When I stick a USB device into the socket it is automounted; KDE
> > pops up device notification widget, file manager window, etc.
> >
> > I tried to disable it:
> > KDE -> System Settings -> Removable Devices, and unchecked
> > "Enable automatic mounting of removable devices".
> > This didn't have any effect.
>
> My experience is with GNOME but will report it to you anyway.  Perhaps
> the additional information will be useful.
>
> For GNOME this behavior is part of Nautilus.  You can use the
> gconf-editor, navigate down to the Nautilus setting
> /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount and disable it.  Next to it
> is media_automount_open and media_autorun_never in the same location.
> I disable both of those too.
>
> Bob

Sounds like the equivalent of what I tried with KDE.
As pointed out earlier in this thread this is a single-user solution 
(for GNOME to; right?).  It does not prevent other users from 
automounting; nor new users.

So I will try to follow up the udev route.

Thanks,
Itay