eject and pam support in Fedora

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Wed Mar 5 10:32:25 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:58:25AM +0000, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >   Unfortunately, eject(8) is ***broken by design***, because
> >   automatically calls umount(8) before an eject ioctl.
> 
> That's pretty necessary if there's a cd or dvd mounted and you need to
> eject it. Arguably it would be good if the kernel would notice it's

 Why do you think that type "umount" before "eject" is so difficult?

> It used to be that you had to put "users" as a mount option in
> /etc/fstab to allows multiple users to mount/unmount e.g. a CD or DVD.
> That's been "broken" by the move to completely dynamic handling of
> removable devices and mountpoints by hal.

 The umount(8) in F7 and F8 supports hal. You needn't "user" or
 "pamconsole" option in your /etc/fstab. The umount(8) simply
 redirects all to /sbin/umount.hal. It means you needn't consolehelepr
 or whatever for hal mounts. This solution should be default on
 desktop.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>




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