Bug#512824: Related to bug #305846?

[Julien Valroff]

Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 à 14:54 +0100, Aljaž Prusnik a écrit :
> On ned, 2009-03-08 at 14:42 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> > Ownership of automounted devices is a different (though related) issue.
> > I think the current behaviour is correct. I do not think letting the
> > second logged in user unmounting the devices automounted in the first
> > session would be great: imagine the first user was working on files from
> > an USB stick, what would happen if the second user umounts this USB
> > stick?
> 
> I agree with this scenario, but I usually get a weirder scenario: I have
> 3 users concurrently logged in. I usually log in the first. When I
> switch back to my session and insert a dvd/cd or a usb key/disk, the
> owner is usually not me but one of the other two users. That's what I
> find weird and probably not what was supposed to be. But that, as you
> said, is an issue of a different bug. 

I have not experienced this issue, at least with GNOME 2.24.
This behaviour might be related to the fact that the removable media was
mounted (and hence owned) by the 2nd or 3rd user. If so, then the fix
should prevent this from happening as the removable media will only be
mounted for the active session.

Still one issue though, which should be reported as a separate bug:
user 1 logs in 
user 1 inserts a removable media which is automounted
user 2 logs in
user 1 logs out
user 2 is not able to unmount the removable media

I think that when a user logs out, the ownership of the removable media
should be passed to another logged in user (problem is to know which
user should get this ownership!)

Cheers,
Julien

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