Restricted pmount uploaded [was: Re: New group for local users]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:02:48AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> In the interest of smooth upgrades we will leave mount/umount alone
> for the moment. I just uploaded a new version of pmount which is now
> restricted to plugdev members. If the group does not exist yet, pmount
> postinst creates it. IMHO this is better than having the postinst fail
> or silently allow pmount execution to everybody.
> 
> So you still need to add the users to the plugdev group if you want to
> use pmount and upgraded from an older Warty version.

Please, everyone install pmount and exercise its functionality through
gnome-volume-manager.  Plug in USB sticks, MP3 players, external hard
drives, etc. and report what happens.  If that testing goes well, we should
be able to move pmount into the desktop seed.

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 - mdz