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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. |