Fixing Debian bug #418176 in 0.5.8.1

[Michael Biebl]

2008/5/28 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:
> Dawn Light wrote:
>
>> Hello :)
>>
>> In Debian, we have the bug
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418176 which prevents
>> desktop users from mounting NTFS filesystems which are in removable
>> devices.
>
> Ditto here in fedora:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/378041
>
> Though we were told that it's not a hal issue since gnome-mount works.

Well, gnome-mount simply doesn't pass the uid/gid option to hal, when
mounting ntfs(-3g) volumes. That's why the bug is never triggered with
gnome-mount.

Cheers,
Michael
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