[PATCH] mounting encrypted devices

[Tobias Koenig]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Waldo Bastian wrote:
Hi Waldo,

> We already have a mountwrapper in the form of 
> kdebase/kioslave/devices/mounthelper.
> 
> Why do you need this helper-application in the first place? Can't you use the 
> normal authentication framework for io-slaves? That is already linked up with 
> kwallet. See KIO::SlaveBase::openPassDlg()
Hmm, I first thought about this but throw this idea away because that
would require bigger changes in the file io-slave. To pass the password to
mount, mount must be start asynchronous, otherwise you can't write to
the pipe. So I start the helper app from the slave in a synchronous way
(with execve) and the helper app does the asynchronous communication
with mount.

I just don't want to touch the file io-slave too much to decrease the
possebility of breaking things :}

Ciao,
Tobias
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