On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:53 PM, Duncan wrote: > First thing, please don't post in HTML to mailing lists.
I am sorry about that, and I apologize for not having been more cautious with this #$#! webmail client. > I actually prefer the manual way, entering the mount command in konsole > or the like. That way I know it's not mounted until I mount it, and when > it's mounted, I know the options its mounted with and that they include > nodev,noexec,user(s), etc, if appropriate, and that they don't, if not. > > What I'd do here if necessary for less technically literate users (or > those without the perms ordinarily necessary to do the mount) would be to > setup a script with exactly the options I wanted, put an icon for it on > the desktop or in the menu, and tell them to click it to access their > device if they want to. I might even get fancy and use kdialog or the > like to script a popup dialog telling them they can now use it, and that > they can close the dialog window when they are done using it, as that > will automatically kill anything still using it and unmount the device. > > The script would have the appropriate sudo mount command if necessary, > and that specific mount command would be allowed for them in /etc/sudoers, > so no dbus or polkit necessary. I used udevil at some point, and it kinda works as the script you described, but the only thing I was missing was some way to trigger that "usb insertion device" event in the kde device notifier so to have a "pure" kde experience. Maybe I should keep looking for dbus/kde and how to trigger that event. Thank you. Juan Ignacio Saitua. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
