HAL methods at storage device level, to mount/unmount/eject volumes

[John (J5) Palmieri]

I'm not sure if we ever added method rules but you can restrict on
interfaces so the best thing to do is to group functionality by
interfaces.

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:16 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 12:09 -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > >   <policy context="default">
> > >     <deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
> > >   </policy>
> > >   <policy at_console="true">
> > >     <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
> > >   </policy>
> > 
> > OK, so this seems to limit access to a D-BUS interface. What about 
> > methods? Is there a way to e.g. allow Mount()/Unmount(), but deny Format()?
> 
> I think (but haven't checked) that this was added to D-BUS rather
> recently - asking on dbus at freedesktop.org is probably a good idea. FWIW,
> I know for a fact that this wasn't possible some time ago.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> 
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