RFE: More on mounting + a question about the "console" flag

[Ricardo Veguilla]

Harald Hoyer wrote:

> Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
>
>> While there are so much chattering about automounting, security
>> considerations of the new fstab "console" tag etc., i have as a systems
>> administrator withnessed one thing - with something as old as floppyes.
>>
>> People mount up the floppy (acctually, they have no clue that they are
>> mounting it, they just click the nice little "floppy" icon), get their
>> files, pull out the floppy (without umounting), and logs out.
>>
>> Then, 2 minutes later, another user logs in, pulls up his/her floppy,
>> and... the floppy is mounted. Cant get it umounted, and can't mount
>> his/her floppy. Grr...
>>
>> Reason that there is a problem with floppyes and not other removable
>> storage, is of cource that floppyes is the only removable storage that
>> the user can pull out without the system gets the message - if you pull
>> an usb mass storage plug, it gets umounted (and it is mounted "sync" so
>> you probably won't loose data either). If you try to eject a cd, it wont
>> come out - untill you umount it (this is really frustrating to new users
>> as well - the "eject" button should umount the cd and eject it, and if
>> it is buisy, tell dbus to tell gnome to display that popup we all loved
>> in fc1)
>>
>> But what if all volumes that the user mounted when he/she was logged on,
>> automatically got umounted when the user who mounted it logs out? That
>> would solve it.
>>
>> About the "console" flag: would a user sitting on an XDMCP terminal be
>> considered a console user or not? How is it determined if he/she is a
>> console user or not? Because someone sitting on an xdmcp terminal
>> shouldn't be considered "console"...
>>
>> Kyrre
>>
>
> Maybe the easiest would be to patch the Gnome/KDE Desktop file-io with 
> floppy devices to mount/umount after each action (like the mtools).

I think there was a brief discussion in the nautilus mailing list about 
writing an mtools backend for gnome-vfs.

Regards,
Ricardo Veguilla