On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:06:37 +0100, Didier wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

>      The major use cases are:
>      1) server with remote users and only root allowed to mount 
> removable devices.
>      2) laptop/desktop with one user at a time with full authority to 
> mount removable devices. You can ssh to your desktop/laptop and still 
> have the same permissions, what's the harm? You should ask someone
> else to insert the device, and this is the true issue and it's not
> solved by the kits (-:
> 
>      If the only role of policykit/consolekit/logind is to give you 
> permissions only if you are local, then I'm just saying that they 
> provide a complex solution to a non-existing problem.
> 
>          Didier

..so a good way forward is, treat this policykit/consolekit/logind
etc thing like systemd, pulseaudio etc poetterware.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.
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