Scott.
What you describe there is that you leave any kind of device handling to
setuid root wrappers.
What do you think group permissions in Unix are for?
What do you think the group "floppy" is for?
Why do you think older versions of Ubuntu played iPods in group
"floppy".
These things have been made so that appropriate permissions can be
applied to devices to eject them from the commandline, without a risky
setuid root program.
What you want is enough setuid root "helpers" to turn Linux into a
Windows permanently running with admistrator logged in. That fine, you
can run like this. But I wont. Setuid root mount/unmount are plenty for
me. Or do you want to set "eject" setuid root?
So I ask you again: what do you think the group "floppy" is for and why
wouldn't you place an iPod in it?
** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu)
Status: Won't Fix => New
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Regression from LTS 6.06 to 8.04: iPod group permissions in /dev/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311758
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