Obsoleting ConsoleKit once and for all

[Lennart Poettering]

BOn Tue, 30.07.13 16:14, Dan Williams (dcbw at redhat.com) wrote:

> 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
>1;3406;0c 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.

But that's stuff that is hidden beneath udev/udisks not sure why a file
manager needs to know that...

Lennart

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