Restricted pmount uploaded [was: Re: New group for local users]

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:32:18AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:02:48AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > In the interest of smooth upgrades we will leave mount/umount alone
> > for the moment. I just uploaded a new version of pmount which is now
> > restricted to plugdev members. If the group does not exist yet, pmount
> > postinst creates it. IMHO this is better than having the postinst fail
> > or silently allow pmount execution to everybody.
> > 
> > So you still need to add the users to the plugdev group if you want to
> > use pmount and upgraded from an older Warty version.
> 
> Please, everyone install pmount and exercise its functionality through
> gnome-volume-manager.  Plug in USB sticks, MP3 players, external hard
> drives, etc. and report what happens.  If that testing goes well, we should
> be able to move pmount into the desktop seed.

This is apparently moot. The recent change to eject to depend on pmount
means that pmount is effectively in Base now.

Is it OK for me to modify debootstrap accordingly? If I don't,
tomorrow's daily images will be uninstallable.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]