On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:10 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 13:16:41 -0600, "Nathanael D. Noblet" nathanael@gnat.ca wrote:
Just out of curiosity... when are these being mounted? If we are talking about mounting a partition from a user session that's one thing and can easily make it user only accessible with a checkbox I guess. I'm wondering though, when you plug in a USB thumbdrive... don't all users have access? What's the difference here? Are we talking about system wide mounts like mine where only /home is encrypted??
This is where we should be going. Encryption is really irrelavent.
Not necessarily. There's a case that the automount behaviour for an encrypted volume should be different from that of a non-encrypted volume. As I read it, it's also technically plausible, because you can know with 100% accuracy which user should have access to the encrypted volume - the user from whose session the passphrase was entered. This is not the case with unencrypted volumes.
The issue should be if a removable device is inserted, who should have access to it if it gets automounted. I would expect encrypted and unencrypted devices to get the same treatment. The encrypted devices do already have a pop up, so maybe that makes it not as much effort to ask a question when the device is mounted. But I don't see otherwise why one would want to treat encrypted and uncrypted removable devices differently.
There's a technical issue; see above. And I can see a reasonable user expectation that on a multi-user system an encrypted volume should be mounted accessible only to the user who entered the passphrase, to be honest.