How does GNOME automount devices without pmount?

[Florian Diesch]

Detlef Lechner <Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net> wrote:

> /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?

HAL is mounting the drives. 

   Florian
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