access regulation for block devices with hal?

[Simon Geard]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 22:04 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> For this kind of setup, using fstab would actually be the easiest
> solution. However, you say that this isn't flexible enough, why? NB
> that fstab can't only just use device names, but UUIDs and labels as
> well, which are usually enough to identify a device (nothing that you
> can't fake, of course).
> 
> So what are you *actually* trying to do? I don't think anyone will be
> able to help you if you don't give a full description of how you want
> to identify devices, what limitations you see with fstab, etc.

Actually, I thought Jelle's description was simple enough - support for
removable storage devices on a multi-user system, and the associated
challenges of managing permissions correctly. I'm no expert, but sounds
like the kind of situation ConsoleKit was invented for - maybe one of
the experts on that could comment?

Simon.
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