Adding mount policy check without PolicyKit

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Sun Mar 4 11:37:43 PST 2007


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 21:40 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When building hal without policykit, the mount backend solely relies
> > on volume.ignore=true. This seems a bit fragile to me, and since we
> > want to integrate mounting of fixed hard disks into the desktop, too
> > [1], I added a policy check to the backend.
> > 
> > Do you consider adding this upstream, too?
> 
> Certainly, I've committed this. Thanks.

So, in preparation for 0.5.9rc1, I reverted this patch so keep this in
mind if you're shipping that kind of thing. Really need some kind of
PolicyKit-ish thing.... more on that later.

      David




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