Re: eject and pam support in Fedora

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Miloslav Trmac napsal(a):
> Hello,
> Zdenek Prikryl napsal(a):
>> I don't know, why eject has to use pam in Fedora. So, could anyone
>> explain why?
> The goal was probably to allow console users (=> pam_console.so) eject
> the CD/DVD medium without knowing the root password.  Some platforms
> have drives without a hardware eject button, so eject needs to be usable
> by all users that can insert a medium.

If CD/DVD was mounted by root or other users, then probably another user
shouldn't have permissions to unmount it and eject it, should he? (umounting
stuff is in eject)

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Zdenek Prikryl <zprikryl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno

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