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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] automount, mount, and USB sticks
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:07:32 +0200
tilt! <tilt@???> wrote:


> I am certain there is a way of solving this "automounting
> problem" (if I may call it that) cleanly, without the use
> of either of them. :-)


Yes, a daemon running as root could do it. And if the daemon does
nothing but observe inotify and dmesg, perhaps check a fifo for devices
to be mounted/unmounted (with complete cleansing of that fifo's
information) and perform a mount command, I imagine we could get a
handle on security.

SteveT

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