Obsoleting ConsoleKit once and for all

[Johannes Lips]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de>wrote:

> 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...
>
There is some stuff regarding thunar on this blog post by one of the thunar
developers:
http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors

Johannes

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