On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:03:50AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > >> I don't understand, why are you using sudo to run pmount when its core >> purpose is to be run by normal users? >> >> % whatis pmount >> pmount (1) - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user > > A normal user can pumount *WHAT THAT SAME USER* has pmounted. Now try > for a general solution.
The general solution is using something like udisks+polkit. That is a true general solution; otherwise you end up like the author of calibre, with a security mess on his hands: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027 If you dismiss the security implications of sudoing pmount, because you care only about *your* use cases, on *your* machine, by definition that is not a "general solution". Of course, udisks/polkit/etc. goes hand in hand with udev, so you are probably not interested in using them. That is completely fine. Just don't call it a "general solution". Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
