Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 17:11:32 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > Brian wrote:
> > > I see what you mean.
> > >
> > > Try
> > >
> > >    gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
> >
> > "apparently" works
> > *NOTE BENE* the quotation marks
> > I ran one DVD
> > am now running a second
>
> Successfully, we expect.

I'll have to go back and redo from scratch. Just spent a week in 
bed with stomach bug. Don't recall some of the side issues I was 
dealing with.

> > HOWEVER I suspect I've made system wide changes without being asked for root
> > permission
>
> Policykit will take care of privileges. Nothing to worry about.

Hadn't done any previous reading on Policykit. It may address the 
one thing I've found most annoying while trying to move to Linux. 
Users [*PLURAL*] and Groups [*PLURAL*] may make sense in a 
universe of mainframes. Not so much in a setting where only one 
individual has access. I have one machine that has no network 
access whatsoever (let alone internet) - going to lengths to 
protect it from external "threats" can become ludicrous.


> > *ALSO* it affected BOTH flash drives and CDs
>
> Indeed. Is is worth digging into udisks and udev to handle CDs and USB
> differently when a left or right click of the mouse does mounting so
> quickly?

Quite possibly. Remember the "P" in PC stands for Personal. YMMV ;)

> > http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gsettings+&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+8+jessie&format=html&locale=en
> > *NOT* informative
>
> Nothing to fret about if the easier route is taken:
>
>     System Tools/dconf Editor/org/mate/desktop/media-handling

Front ends are nice, but I want to understand what's under the hood.


> > It also does not address pre-systemd
>
> I don't follow that.

I had had the impression that D-bus was inherently part of systemd.
Just had an interesting read through 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus and 
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/ [even mentions a 
Windows port ;].