ntfs USB HDD permissions

[George Billios]

-------- Original Message  --------
From: Vladimir <vlad_st at sympatico.ca>
To: hal at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: ntfs USB HDD permissions
Date: Sat Apr 08 2006 20:09:39

> Hello everybody,
> 	Trying to setup permissions on ntfs USB harddrive on Fedora 5. It gives
> access to root only. In accordance to HAL I have to configure policy.
> Tried different ways - nothing works. Latest configuration:
> 
> Created
> file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/95-ntfs-permissions.fdi:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> 
> <!-- Mount external ntfs drives with user privileges -->
>   <device>
>     <match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
>       <match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">
>         <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.no_partitions_hint"
> bool="false">
>           <match key="volume.partition.msdos_part_table_type"
> exists="true">
>             <match key="volume.partition.msdos_part_table_type"
> int="0x07">
>               <merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.umask=022"
> type="bool">true</merge>
>               </match>
>             </match>
>           </match>
>         </match>
>       </match>
>     </device>
> </deviceinfo>
> 
> Restarted haldaemon,
> 
> After attaching HDD lshal gives
> ...
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_46004880004878C7'
> info.hal_mount.mounted_by_uid = 500 (0x1f4) (int)
> info.hal_mount.created_mount_point = '/media/Remote_2-1' (string)
> volume.policy.mount_option.umask=022 = true (bool)
> volume.unmount.valid_options = {'lazy'} (string list)
> volume.mount.valid_options = {'ro', 'sync', 'dirsync', 'noatime',
> 'nodiratime', 'noexec', 'quiet', 'umask='} (string list)
> ...
> and permissions still the same as before:
> ...
> dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Mar 26 14:00 Remote_2
> ...
> May be there is any other settings or services which overwrite HAL? Any
> ideas?
> Thanks a lot
> Vladimir
> 
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The problem is gnome-mount.

This is the new kid on the block which is used in FC5 to mount/umount
volumes and guess what....

It doesn't check at hal properties at all! The idea in the future
(probably in 2010+ checking from the progress in gnome-mount cvs --
hasn't been updated since 01/03/2006!) is that gnome-mount will take the
extra parameters from gconf and you will be able to choose them also by
right-clicking on a volume BUT for now you have no luck expect if you
mount manually the volumes!

There is an open bug in fedora for this but... no response, no reply, no
will to do something.

Hope I made things clear!