mount options

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:21 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Does anybody know how to change such mount options like, say,
> 'shortname=winnt' for vfat for filesystems mounted by hal?
> This is just an example and I may want to change something
> else as well.
> 
> I tried to add in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty
> my own .fdi file.  No complaints but it was simply ignored.
> All this area enjoys a complete lack of documentation (an accidental
> REAME or some example configuration where one needs to divine
> details of both syntax and semantics hardly qualify) so one
> is left guessing.
> 
> Sure, I can edit sources and recompile gnome-mount where
> this 'shortname=winnt' is set.  Anyone with less drastic
> options?  Hacking /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-mount
> looks even less appealing on a long run.
> 
>    Michal

Right now it can't be done in FC-5.  For better or worse upstream
decided to take the policy configuration out of HAL.  They are working
on PolicyKit which should allow for better control over policy such as
mounting.  We are in the process of evaluating it.  Options right now
are to add a static mount to /etc/fstab or
edit /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-mount.  If someone wants
to go more indepth and send a patch
for /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-mount which uses the old
policy keys from HAL I have no issues with releasing a new package for
FC-5 as long as it is deemed to be secure.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>