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

[Chris Cox]

Ted Gould wrote:
> 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.

Which is arguably wrong as well.  Best thing to do is to realize that
devices coming into the computer could be utilized by more than one
person and simply maintain session state across the users to attempt
to avoid collision.  Of course user operations to a device are usually
multiple independent steps and not transactional in nature, so room
for error will always exist.

So... if all of these "Kits" are simply designed to present
a session collision mechanism... fine.  They just shouldn't
strive to do the impossible (that results in failure).