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Author: Daniel Cegiełka
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To: Jaromil
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] automount Was: Re: A better default windows manager
2015-07-27 11:45 GMT+02:00 Jaromil <jaromil@???>:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Svante Signell wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:17 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
>> > If I might say so, I HATE automount. Click to mount is fine, but
>> > automounting peripheral drives like jump drives, CDs and whatnot is an
>> > inexcusable security risk, in my opinion, even under a UNIX.
>>
>> Couldn't agree more!
>
> me too...
>
>> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Steve Litt
>> > <slitt@???> wrote:
>> >         You can roll your own automount with one day's work using
>> >         inotify-wait, dmesg, sudo, lsblk, and the mount command.
>> >         Works without X or window manager. Heck, I'll do it myself
>> >         if more than 20 people want it.

>>
>> Count me in, now we are three wanting it, including yourself.
>
> worth mentioning here, in relation to the "sudo and mount" deps above,
> that 'pmount' the perl wrapper that enables users to mount devices
> without root is left unmaintained, last release tagget 0.9.99-alpha
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pmount
>
> I think is worthed reviving esp. because it allows users to loop-mount
> iso files, something that is not possible via 'user' option in fstab
>


wow! Its magic?

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pmount/pmount-debian.git/tree/src/Makefile.am

$(INSTALL_DATA) -o root -g root -m 4755 -D $(INSTALL_SRC)/pmount
$(INSTALL_DIR)/pmount
                                                     ^^^^^
no... just suid :)


Daniel