Mike Hearn wrote:
I don't think there's anything wrong with Windows style auto-start. It's
convenient for the user and requires minimal knowledge and interaction.
We just need to get it right.
The samba team did this well: for a given "share"
(mounted filesystem) they define eight options that go in a
administer-only config file.
The first four are commands to be run before and after the
share is made available.
root preexec = command & options
preexec = command & options
postexec = command & options
postexec close = boolean, and
root postexec = command & options
and
root preexec close = boolean
preexec close = boolean
root postexec close = boolean
root postexec close = boolean
The latter turn on/off return code checking,
If I say
[share for a cd]
root preexec = mount /mnt/cdrom0
root preexec close = True
then on being asked to provide the share, the server
will run the command "mount /mnt/cdrom0" as root, and
if and only if it succeeds, will continue to
making the share available to the user.
The non-root pre and postexecs are for commands that
should run as the user who's requested the share,
so as to allow for actions which require specific user
permissions as well as root permissions.
This is somewhat similar to what you're describing,
just generalized to handle all media, not just CDs.
--dave
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