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diff --git a/system/pmount/README b/system/pmount/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..9ee69cc23f432 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/pmount/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +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. 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. + +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. + +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). |