[kde-linux] Hotplug (USB) Problem with KDE 3.5.5 - dbus/hal

[Hans Hacker]

Well, the problem is, that we have dozends or more different groups...
I thought about writing a script which adds all the different groups 
to '/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf' ... 
but i would prefer a somewhat cleaner method ! 

Can i switch back to pmount ? pmount would work perfect, because 
it accepts the settings from '/etc/security/group.conf'

I couldn't figure out how exactly kde mounts the devices ... i renamed 
'kio_media_mounthelper' and wrote me a perl-script (with this name) which 
should mount the device via 'pmount' but it appears that kde doesn't use 
'kio_media_mounthelper' ...

cheers 
Hans


Am Freitag, 8. Juni 2007 19:02 schrieb Kevin Krammer:
> On Friday 08 June 2007, Hans Hacker wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > i want to set up our system to use usbsticks/cameras/cds.
> > I use Debian Edge and KDE 3.5.5 !
> >
> > KDE recognizes the usb device if i plug it.
> >
> > But if i want to open it i get the following message:
> >
> > A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message
> > to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message
> > had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error
> > name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
> >
> > i found out, that i need be a member of the group 'plugdev'
> >
> > the first idea was to enter it in '/etc/security/group.conf' ...
> > for some reason that does'nt work !!
> > so i modified '/etc/group' and added me to the group plugdev
> > and it worked ...
> >
> > my problem is now, that in our company aprox. 100 people work ... and
> > i can't add them all to the group by hand
>
> If they are all in another group, e.g. "users", you could just copy this
> line in /etc/group and change groupname to plugdev and the group ID to the
> one plugdev originally had.
>
> Another option is to add this other group to the D-Bus policy file fopr HAL
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

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