Mount points for CD-ROM

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 02:48:46 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:32 -0500, Scott Karlin wrote:
>  Interesting.  I'm a WindowMaker (and sometimes KDE) user so I've
> always handled mounts myself.

It also works in KDE.

> If I were to switch to gnome, how is the "local" user determined?  My
> xorg.conf is set up to have three separate X Screens.  My family can
> all be logged in simultaneously and we switch users with Ctrl-Alt-Fn.
> It sounds like the system might have some difficulty determining who
> to give permissions to.

I believe this is handled by ConsoleKit, i.e. the permissions go to
whoever has the console when the disk is inserted. At least that's what
it seemed to do back when I was switching users on a regular basis.

poc




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