Hello,
Some time ago, you reported that:
Adam Nielsen wrote:
> When pmount is SGID and a device is mounted through a udev hotplug event, the
> mountpoint is owned by the same user and group as the pmount executable
> (root:plugdev on my system.)
>
> This is fine, but if I want to unmount the device manually before unplugging
> it, I can't unmount it (even though I'm in the plugdev group) as it tells me I
> wasn't the one who mounted it (because 'root' mounted it via the udev event.)
>
> It would be very useful to have some method (such as setting the GID on the
> pumount executable), so that anyone in that group can unmount devices as well.
>
> As it stands now, only root can unmount these devices.
Could you be a bit more precise, please ? Which is the mount point of
the devices ? Are they removable ? What does
pumount -d device
tell you ?
Thanks,
Vincent Fourmond
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