[aklug] Re: Ivman secret, please

Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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Received on Wed Oct 15 16:54:18 2008