[Thunar-dev] Thunar + Hal

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Biju Chacko wrote:
> 
>>Oh crap. Now it crashes on startup with the following output:
> 
> 
> See my last reply to Jannis.

Will check it out.

>>>Which replacement for pmount is provided on Fedora (btw. looking at the
>>>source, there doesn't seem to be anything that prevents it from running
>>>on Fedora)?
>>
>>It works fine after I installed it. However on stock fedora I usually 
>>just use 'mount' (as a user) to mount removable disks.
> 
> 
> We can only use mount if there's an entry in fstab and the mount point
> exists, as I don't want to introduce an additional suid binary for the
> HAL support. That's the advantage of pmount, it doesn't depend on an
> entry in /etc/fstab and it will create the mount point on-demand (and
> remove it afterwards). I'm pretty sure there's a replacement for this
> shipping with Fedora by default, as else you'd need root privilegues to
> mount most removable devices reported by HAL.

Fedora uses a program called fstab-sync which seems to be part of the 
hal package. It updates fstab so non-root local users can mount 
removable disks.

-- b