[aklug] Ivman secret, please

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 23:24:00 AKDT

Hi. Would anyone be willing to share the secret of what it is I need to
do to ivman to get it to mount usb sticks?

Someone in a IRC room told me the secret about a year ago, and I was a
very happy ivman user for many months. Then I switched distros, and
unfortunately could not remember the secret.

It doesn't seem to make a difference whether I run ivman as root or as
user, and it is set to run as a system daemon. My installation is a
default one out of the Debian Lenny repos. The
/etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml contains these lines, so I am not sure
what else to change:
    <ivm:Option name="checkOnInit" value="true" />

    <!-- try to mount any mountable volume at all -->
    <ivm:Match name="ivm.mountable" value="true">
        <ivm:Option name="mount" value="true" />
    </ivm:Match>

Does it have something to do with this? (From the
/etc/ivman/IvmConfigBase.xml file):
    <!-- user for Ivman to run as. You can then setup sudo rules for this
         user. -->
    <ivm:Option name="user" value="ivman" />

    <!-- group for Ivman to run as. Should have permissions to run
'pmount'. -->
    <ivm:Option name="group" value="plugdev" />

Do I need to set up sudo permissions a certain way? Pmount already
seems to be setuid.

-- 
Christopher Howard
choward@indicium.us
http://www.indicium.us
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