On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:18:53AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014, at 23:32, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > On 07/21/2014 11:16 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > So how does umount determine that a device was mounted by a user
> > > and thus that the user is alllowed to unmount it again?
> >
> > man sys-utils/mount.8 # the new one! ;-)
>
> :) Ah, the man page is too big!
>
> > user Allow an ordinary user to mount the filesystem.
> > The name of the mounting user is written to mtab
> > (or to the private libmount file in /run/mount on
> > system without regular mtab) so that he can unmount
> > the filesystem again.
>
> There is no /run directory on my system. So this probably means
> that this mechanism requires a minimum kernel version? Or should
> that be /var/run/mount?
All this is userspace stuff only, if you don't have /run than it uses
old obsolete /dev/.mount/utab
> By the way, Karel, what are these 'helper=' and 'uhelper=' things
> that are mentioned in umount.8? Shouldn't these be mentioned in
> mount.8 too, and more extensively?
Not sure, it's implemented for very special purpose when udisks mount
a device that should be umounted again by udisks. I don't think we
want to do any advertisement for this functionality.
> But... how can uhelper ever
> be specified when a mountpoint isn't defined in /etc/fstab?
It's never specified in fstab, it's specified by udisks when it calls
mount(8).
Karel
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