On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:42:22PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > 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? > > Right now it can't be done in FC-5. For better or worse upstream > decided to take the policy configuration out of HAL. Sigh! As usual they have that completely backwards. I mean that one can suffer through moving policies elsewhere, although old configuration and methods stop to work, as long as this "elsewhere" is not /dev/null. > They are working on PolicyKit which should allow for better > control over policy such as mounting. One would think that the order should be: first PolicyKit and at that time we are killing old ways. Oh, well, at least there is some hope ... > Options right now > are to add a static mount to /etc/fstab Does not work too good if a file system in question is on a memory card for a digital camera or something else of that sort. > or edit /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-mount. I was afraid of that once I looked at various pieces but I hoped that I am mistaken. Bummer! > 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. Ouch! That may be "interesting". Thanks, Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list