Re: gconf on multi-seat

[ritz <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hello

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 18:10 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> I have a multi-seat setup; two users on the same machine.
> 
> The problem is when you plug in an mp3 player or similar, gconf pretty 
> much randomly picks which user to give it to and then sets the 
> permissions to where only that user can write to it.
> 
> I get 755 perms, with uid being the user, gid being root.
> 
> What I want is 775 perms with uid being whatever, gid=47 (music on my 
> system).
> 
> mount -t vfat -o uid=0,gid=47,umask=0002 /dev/sdi disk
> 
> work just fine, but any attempt to put gid or umask into gconf results 
> in an error and no mount.  The error is pretty useless; a popup window 
> that says something like device could not be mounted because of an 
> error.  No explanation or detail of the error is given.
> 
> What can I do to mount a shared usb device via gconf?
This has nothing to do with gconf. Please refer to hal ploicy files
( freedesktop.org )


> 
> --Yan
> 
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