How does GNOME automount devices without pmount?

[Detlef Lechner]

Hi,

/usr/share/doc/gnome-volume-manager/README.Debian: "When mounting a
device, gnome-volume-manager runs /usr/bin/pmount on the device node.
This means that the corresponding device must have either be removable
or have an entry in /etc/fstab which is mountable by the user that runs
gvm. To be able to use pmount, the user which is running gvm must be
part of the plugdev group."
Ubuntu 8.04.q does not install pmount by default but is able to
automount an USB drive. How does it do this without pmount being
installed?

Regards,

Detlef Lechner