It sometimes takes a helluva lot of time to mount a vfat floppy... Besides, it would still be better to do a "forced" umount on logout (so it would work even if the disc isn't there/still active progs in the path - just kill'em) man, 04.10.2004 kl. 15.51 skrev Harald Hoyer: > Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > While there are so much chattering about automounting, security > > considerations of the new fstab "console" tag etc., i have as a systems > > administrator withnessed one thing - with something as old as floppyes. > > > > People mount up the floppy (acctually, they have no clue that they are > > mounting it, they just click the nice little "floppy" icon), get their > > files, pull out the floppy (without umounting), and logs out. > > > > Then, 2 minutes later, another user logs in, pulls up his/her floppy, > > and... the floppy is mounted. Cant get it umounted, and can't mount > > his/her floppy. Grr... > > > > Reason that there is a problem with floppyes and not other removable > > storage, is of cource that floppyes is the only removable storage that > > the user can pull out without the system gets the message - if you pull > > an usb mass storage plug, it gets umounted (and it is mounted "sync" so > > you probably won't loose data either). If you try to eject a cd, it wont > > come out - untill you umount it (this is really frustrating to new users > > as well - the "eject" button should umount the cd and eject it, and if > > it is buisy, tell dbus to tell gnome to display that popup we all loved > > in fc1) > > > > But what if all volumes that the user mounted when he/she was logged on, > > automatically got umounted when the user who mounted it logs out? That > > would solve it. > > > > About the "console" flag: would a user sitting on an XDMCP terminal be > > considered a console user or not? How is it determined if he/she is a > > console user or not? Because someone sitting on an xdmcp terminal > > shouldn't be considered "console"... > > > > Kyrre > > > > Maybe the easiest would be to patch the Gnome/KDE Desktop file-io with floppy devices to mount/umount after each action (like the mtools).
