On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:19:19 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> > A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now >> > try for a general solution. >> >> The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. That is a >> true general solution; otherwise you end up like the author of >> calibre, with a security mess on his hands: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 >> >> If you dismiss the security implications of sudoing pmount, because >> you care only about *your* use cases, on *your* machine, by definition >> that is not a "general solution". > > You should never need to sudo pmount, it is supposed to run as a normal > user. Walter is using sudo to run pumount, which is nothing like the > situation described in that bug. Even pmount avoids the situations > described in that bug because it is only capable of operating in /media.
OK, noted. It is still not "a general solution", which is my main point. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
