On 04/01/2012 09:36 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
the powers that be have decided this a bit different:)
- udev is conceptually for creating device nodes and tagging the devices - udisks is the service that abstracts mounting towards desktops etc.
Mounting is done by desktop agents... - gnome GVFS - not sure about KDE4
and background mounting with - udisks-glue e.g. is a system daemon that implements automount policies.
I'm certainly ignorant of the processes to automount, but I do know it has to be tricky. Whatever the process, I think that there has to be a global (root-owned) policy to control automounting. For example, the US Department of Defense requires that desktop computers have automounting turned off for all users of the systems. They're trying to address the security issues in Windows, of course, but innocent bystanders have been swept up by the broad policy. Windows systems can do this, and managers ask if non-Windows desktops are also compliant. Yes, Linux (and openSuSE) are used by various DoD components and it would be a shame if knee jerking managers kicked them off of the networks because they couldn't be configured as security as Windows! I'm sure that other big organizations have similar requirements. Note that DoD also requires that anyone with administrative privileges have special training and industry recognized certifications, so most desktop users don't have admin rights. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org