[PATCH] Volume formatting for HAL using PolicyKit

[Christopher Santero]

Now that David has written (the very cool) PolicyKit, it is possible
to do meaningful privilege checking to see if a user is allowed to
format a volume. The attached patch builds on the patch I submitted
three months ago. It adds two privileges, hal-storage-fixed-format and
hal-storage-removable-format, to allow formatting of volumes on fixed
disks versus removable media. The hal-system-storage-format script
checks one of these privileges based on the storage.hotpluggable
property of the drive identified by the volume's block.storage_device.

Right now the formatting support is still limited (it's basically the
same as it was three months ago). It only allows you to give a volume
a label, no advanced filesystem parameters or anything like that. Also
I'm not sure if it's possible to exploit the label parameter by
passing a custom string. I tried doing it to no avail, though someone
who is actually good at bash might be able to break it.

Chris
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