Obsoleting ConsoleKit once and for all

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Tue Jul 30 21:14:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 23:03 +0200, Lars Seipel wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 04:28:55PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > thunar and pcmanfm are file managers and require ConsoleKit for handling
> > removable storage.
> 
> Are you sure you aren't confusing this with something? HAL maybe? 

There's some interaction with ConsoleKit to ensure that the removable
storage is tied to a specific session so that the logged-in user can
actually modify their USB drive.  Otherwise it's only accessible to
'root'.

So yes, something *else* (HAL, udisks, etc) actually handles the
mounting, but there's some other components involved in permissions and
mount location, and that's where ConsoleKit helps out.

Dan



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