bionwatcher.blogg.se - Gnome volume manager

#Gnome volume manager Patch#
#Gnome volume manager code#

Upstream already defaults to using gnome-mount.

#Gnome volume manager Patch#

Remove our current patches to use pmount, remove luks patch from g-v-m.

Upstream would welcome a rewrite, he just lacks time to do it.

#Gnome volume manager code#

The backend needs to be changed to do all policy checks on its own the current pmount code will be used as a model for policy checks, and preferably we will also borrow code from it. This does not fit into the agreed-upon trust model of hal, that's why we disabled this backend in dapper. Right now, the hal mount backend (which runs as root) queries hald (which runs as user haldaemon) for attributes and decides whether or not to allow mounting.

This will essentially deprecate pmount for the Gnome use case.

Fix the hal mount backend to do the same rigid policy checks than pmount currently does.

The changes in this specification affect the handling of removable devices in Gnome.Ĭhange gnome-volume-manager and gnome-vfs2 to use gnome-mount instead of pmount-hal. In dapper, the encrypted partition is automatically mounted (after asking for the passphrase), but the device is not integrated into HAL at all, which means that you cannot assign it to a label or configure mount policy, and the user interface sees a confusing spare dummy drive.

Martin carries his GPG and SSH keys on an encrypted USB stick partition.

In Dapper, VFAT partitions on USB devices are always mounted with umask 077, and there is no GUI way to change this.

Joe keeps his music and video collection on a USB hard disk and wants other users to access it as well.

Thus Gnome has no support for mount policies and only little support for encrypted devices in Dapper.

Gnome-mount and the hal mount backend are used by upstream by default now, they did not accept our pmount-centric solution. Thus it replaces the clumsy HAL fdi policies for mount options and can also replace the hideous pmount hacks in g-v-m and pmount with something that actually works smoothly. It provides users with a nice GUI to configure mount options, consistently handle encrypted devices, and so on. Gnome-mount is a relatively new addition to the Utopia stack. Packages affected: gnome-mount, gnome-volume-manager, hal Contributors: MartinPitt, SebastienBacher, JaniMonoses