Hal policy for allowing umount of other users mounts

Kevin Kempter kevink at consistentstate.com
Wed Nov 11 15:23:42 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 11 November 2009 08:14:16 Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Pretend you're on Fedora 10. (No DeviceKit)
> Also, pretend you don't use PolicyKit.
> 
> What's the correct way to allow
> "hal-storage-can-unmount-volumes-mounted-by-others" for a particular
> user and/or group?
> 
> +100 points to person with the correct answer.
> 


I believe you can get what you want via udev rules (/etc/udev/rules.d/*)
I've used this to change perms on my USB palm devices in the past.
  
See these links for help getting started:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168221

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html




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