Hello,
Adam Nielsen wrote:
>> Could you be a bit more precise, please ? Which is the mount point of
>> the devices ? Are they removable ? What does
>>
>> pumount -d device
>>
>> tell you ?
>
> This is what happens when I connect a USB flash drive:
>
> $ ls /media/
> total 36K
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 44 2009-01-06 15:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4.0K 2009-01-01 15:50 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 6 root root 0 2008-12-14 21:27 .keep_sys-apps_hal-0
> drwxrwx--- 2 root plugdev 16K 1970-01-01 10:00 TDK2
>
> $ pumount /media/TDK2/
> Error: device /dev/sdd1 was not mounted by you
>
> $ pumount -d /media/TDK2/
> checking whether /media/TDK2/ is a mounted directory
> resolved mount point /media/TDK2/ to device /dev/sdd1
> resolved /dev/sdd1 to device /dev/sdd1
> Checking for device '/dev/sdd1' in '/etc/fstab'
> Checking for device '/dev/sdd1' in '/etc/mtab'
> Error: device /dev/sdd1 was not mounted by you
>
> $ groups
> lp wheel audio cdrom video games usb users portage webusers tv wireshark
> vboxusers plugdev
>
> $ ls /usr/bin/pumount
> -rws--x--- 1 root plugdev 31K 2008-12-07 10:07 /usr/bin/pumount
>
> Seeing as I'm in the plugdev group, and the mountpoint is owned by
> plugdev, it'd be great if I could unmount it. Alternatively the if the
> SGID bit was set on pumount maybe then whoever is in the same group as
> /usr/sbin/pumount could be allowed to unmount pmounted folders?
>
> Hope this explains things a bit better.
Yes, it does. I'm still missing some information, though. Could you
send the output of pmount (only, without arguments/options) when the
device is mounted ?
Or, in other words, is it mounted with gid=plugdev ? Do you have an
idea of which program is mounting the device ?
Cheers,
Vincent
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