[clug] How to gain non-root read access to external HD
Pearl Louis
pearl.louis at gmail.com
Sun May 1 08:10:16 GMT 2005
Well, it seems you're right Paul. It is Hal. But you don't mess
around with hald.conf, but you have to define a new policy file *.fdi.
Anyway, does anyone know anything about this? My test fdi file which
does the innocuous thing of changing the mount point doesn't work - as
in Hal simply doesn't use it at all. It is in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy.
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version=\"0.2\">
<device>
<match key=\"@block.storage_device:storage.vendor\" string=\"Maxtor\">
<match key=\"@block.storage_device:storage.model\" string=\"OneTouch\">
<match key=\"block.is_volume\" bool=\"true\">
<match key=\"volume.fsusage\" string=\"filesystem\">
<match key=\"volume.partition.number\" int=\"1\">
<merge key=\"volume.policy.desired_mount_point\"
type="string">OneTouch</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Pearl
On 4/30/05, Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:20:06AM +1000, Pearl Louis wrote:
> > Here's the situation. Fedora 3 automatically detects my external hard
> > drive. Yay! However, it won't give me non-root read access. I don't
> > really want write access as it is an ntfs partition and I'd rather not
> > see my mp3 collection and my data from my PhD work and all the drafts
> > of my papers and my thesis go up in smoke. Most of my music
> > collection is on the external hard drive and I would dearly love to be
> > able to play said mp3s without logging in as root. Now, Fedora 3
> > automatically puts this entry into fstab when I plug in the hard
> > drive:
>
> > /dev/sda1 /media/ieee1394disk ntfs
> > pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system
> > _u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
>
> I think "managed" here means it's added by hal. I dunno about
> FC3 specifically, but I reckon you can futz around in /etc/hal
> to control its mount options.
>
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