[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] udev-extraconf:fix rootless X write to usb storage failed

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 28 April 2013 09:14, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com> wrote:
>> Rootless X is owned by xuser, the problem is xuser could not have
>> permissions to write to the usb storage when the file system is
>> vfat(fat16/fat32):
>
> Did I miss something, but why not use a disk group that the xuser has
> access to?  I don't really like tying the automounter to the exact
> configuration of the X server, especially when this will break again
> if the user is using a non-root Wayland session.
>
> Ubuntu can set the user to the current user because as you say, the
> user environment is doing the mounting.  At the moment, we don't have
> that.

You might want to look at pmount. It is an easy way to handle it without udisks.

https://launchpad.net/pmount

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