[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#496879: hal: more usb lack-of-mountability action

[Alexander Clouter]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-2
Severity: important

Although very similar to #486496 this one is because hal no longer 
honours groups added to the user by pam_group.

I upgraded a machine from etch to lenny and no can no longer mount USB 
disks and whatnot via thunar; identical error that Mr #486496 was 
getting.

So this got me thinking, in my /etc/security/group.conf file I have:

===
gdm;:*;*;Al0000-2400;audio,floppy,video,cdrom,plugdev,powerdev
===

And it does truely work, when I log in and type 'id' into an xterm I 
am a member of the plugdev group.  With etch this was enough, however 
with hal in lenny this is not the case and it seems to only care about 
whatever lurks in /etc/group :(  When I manually add my user to 
/etc/group I can mount and umount to my hearts content.

If course running pmount from an xterm with the pam_group method works, 
but then I'm in an xterm.  I'm guessing hal is evaluating the user from 
outside the context of pam and just as a raw user...or something?

Cheers

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.110                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.2.1-3                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-13                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-3                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4                XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.1-2              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.4-2               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1        0.13.13-1              Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.1-2                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-12            userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.125-5                libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-19                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-4              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.3-1              utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.125-5                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-8                 Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin               <none>       (no description available)

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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