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| author | Guillermo Bonvehi <gbonvehi@gmail.com> | 2010-05-11 19:46:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 19:46:35 +0200 |
| commit | e71b7af2e0b90ef7159ffc1aed291c2d808c8db6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e88cb390a3a7afdc96ec4c00a21c2acdd1cfe00 /system/pmount/README | |
| parent | 8a2ea2c98be197f14d1e92f2ab58a7cfb4b27106 (diff) | |
system/pmount: Updated for version 0.9.16
Diffstat (limited to 'system/pmount/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/pmount/README | 25 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/system/pmount/README b/system/pmount/README index 9ee69cc23f432..7db295dc0c369 100644 --- a/system/pmount/README +++ b/system/pmount/README @@ -1,18 +1,13 @@ -mount removable devices as normal user +pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits +normal users to mount removable devices without a matching +/etc/fstab entry. -pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal -users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This -provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia -project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum. +The program also includes "pmount-hal" which reads information from +hal (device labels, mount options) and passes them to pmount. +Note that this pmoumt SlackBuild by default uses --enable-hal since +hal is included in Slackware 12.0. -This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some -information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes them -to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this feature. +After installing pmount, you've to be sure the users you want to be +able to use it are in "plugdev" group. -If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to -transparently mount encrypted volumes. - -This requires ivman and HAL, both of which are available at SlackBuilds.org. - -The user executing 'pmount' probably via 'ivman-launch' must be a member -of the 'plugdev' system group (which is required by HAL). +You can read pmount's man page if you want detailed information. |