[NTLUG:Discuss] Last meeting, you CAN have hotplugged devices automount without desktop

[Ted Gould]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 23:48 -0600, Jerome Haltom wrote:
> Right now, at least in Gnome, this is not handled as good as it could
> be. A process named gnome-volume-manager is responsible for acting on
> the devices when they are inserted. There is no perfect mechanism to
> identify which user should mount the device. Consequently it doesn't
> work right when involving multiple users.

How should it work with multiple users?  I believe that it'll mount as
the user who is on the console today.

> Second, PolicyKit can be used to grant permissions to that specific user
> to mount a specific device, only when ConsoleKit claims he is
> responsible for it. PolicyKit would enable the process escalation to run
> the 'mount' command. PolicyKit would replace sudo at the desktop level.
> 
> Some of this is done. Some of it is working. RedHat appears to be the
> driving force behind all of the various *Kits. In fact, everything you
> see lately that is CamelCase, is RedHat's doing.
> 
> I believe Ubuntu hardy has recently adopted ConsoleKit. It is installed
> by default on my machines at this point. Unsure about PolicyKit.

ConsoleKit is in Gutsy, but Hardy is adopting PolicyKit also.

		--Ted