Mount option hazardous to USB Flash!
Ian Malone
ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Sat May 14 11:51:28 UTC 2005
John Summerfied wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> It took quite a while to work out how to change the HAL options for
>> mounting the player. Neither the fstab-sync manpage or the HAL
>> documentation mention the need to restart the haldaemon to re-read
>> /usr/share/hal/fdi/, which took a while to find out. Once I had that
>> I couldn't find a rule that would match usb disks, although it should
>> have been easy:
> If you found a config file in /usr it's a bug and FC isn't
> LSB-compliant as I understand it.
> If there's a file in /usr that you need to diddle with and it's not a
> config file, it sounds like it ought to be.
> I suggest that someone who's affected write up a bug report describing
> the original problem, the workaround and these opinions.
> destroying computer equipment is a fairly serious matter, but so is
> standards-compliance.
As I was doing it I thought "So we're keeping configuration files in
/usr now?"
From man fstab-stync:
"By default, the /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi
file specifies the policy - this file should never be edited by the
system administrator as it might get updated by the OS vendor
for security updates. Instead, system- or site-specific rules can be put
in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy directory."
It looks like the default policy can be justified being under /usr
since it's supposed to be part of the package, not a configuration
file. However, I think a 'system-specific' rule probably should be
under /etc.
Since the rules are XML I wonder if it's possible to create an include
in /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy pointing to something under /etc
(or maybe just symlink, but I'm not sure how elegant people think that
is).
(sorry about any corruption, but I'm using a Windows machine to cut
and paste from a redirected manpage: not ideal)
--
imalone
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