Hello, I've been trying to get the following issue earlier, like here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-October/000457.html HAL (and maybe udiks, I do not know, I haven't tried it yet) mounts devices at /media, with the user using the computer as the owner of everything of the device. Now this not a problem when there is only one user, but when there are more users, like multiseat, there is a problem. HAL(and udisks?) can mount the device only once, with one set of options. How does HAL cope with this. The first user who reacts on the signal from her/.his desktop a device is plugged in, makes it mounted, and he/she "owns" the device?? To be clear, I think the sollution is to leave the mounting by HAL, and let the automounter do the mounting. When a session starts (a user logs in) a autofs managed directory is added to an already running automounter. This map and the related mountpoint are for the just logged in user only. So now it's possible to have a device plugged in, and mounted on several places at the same time, for several users, each mountpoint with different options, like the owner. I do not know about more options. I can tell you about the sollution I'm working on: a FUSE module fuse-workspace. It mirrors another directory, where you're able to make a symbolic link look like a directory. This makes is possible to make a directory in your homedirectory, like Devices, contain all the devices you have access to. It looks like they are mounted there, where in fact they are mounted by the automounter (somewhere in /mnt, to be exact: /mnt/mount.md5key/$USER/mount) This construction makes it possible to have every user their own mountpoints, for every device she/he has access to. For more information: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FileSystems#fuse-workspace about FUSE module http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/fuse-workspace/index.php about automounter per user with md5 keys http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/mount.md5key/index.php starting a program when a session starts using ConsoleKit http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/runsessionscripts/index.php Please what do you think?? Stef _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
