I have created my own udev rules and scripts adding the following functionalities that were missing at the time of design atleast.
Works with read-only root. Allows custom mount options for any filesystem type. Automounts any usb plugged in with only udev as a dependency to mount locations such as /media/usb[0-100] (both of these greatly reduce typing at a terminal without switching to X11). Cleans up disconnected devices. I haave been very happy but one part has recently broken which was a wrapper around umount which used sudo and fell back to just umount. I did that because I noticed nautilus provided access to the unmount command via the mount point rather than device display, that has now dissapeared and I'm not sure if that's a bug or intended. Seems silly to remove it to me. I liked having the mount point and device shown to users. This broke likely either due to installed udisks2 (1.94.0-1) or upgraded nautilus (3.2.1-1 -> 3.4.1-1). I decided, that features gone, and after editing three files (two ineffectual), polkit is atleast unmounting, but before I could look at what that actually means in terms of what can be unmounted and restricting that to certain devices like I did with sudo unmount, it's asking for modify permissions. I can hit cancel but how dumb. What has eject possibly got to do with modify? Polkit seems very cryptic, surely a security technologies main requirement is to be transparent!!! Apparently polkit is more fine-grained than sudo, that seems false as is the idea that sudo requries passwords. from the udisks website. Modify a device (create new filesystem, partitioning, change FS label etc.) Could someone please help me with the following. 1./ Why would udisks want modify after safely remove via nautilus or thunar. 2./ Can I suppress the polkit modify permission denied box. 3./ Can I restrict udisks to unmounting only certain devices when udev has mounted the device via a non priviledged hand-off script utilising sudo. Thanks, Kc _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel