On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 06:10 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I was a little confused there. I was thinking that pmount provided > the full daemon, HAL listener, etc. Basically, I'm wondering, what > does g-v-m's job on the text console? Alexander answered that one. > Ivman appears to do that job.
Ah, right. No, pmount is simply a workaround for users not having permission to mount and unmount removable devices. Normally you'd configure gnome-vfs and g-v-m to use pmount/pumount instead of the default mount/umount. Just to make things more complicated, the Redhat/Fedora crowd are introducing gnome-mount, which does the same thing in a different manner, providing a stronger framework for enforcing policy on such things. It's not well received by the Debian crowd though - if I understand the debate right, their problem is a dependency on the pam_console module which Redhat use heavily and which Debian consider a horrible hack. Simon.
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