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authorMenno E. Duursma <druiloor@zonnet.nl>2010-05-11 15:18:42 +0200
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+mount removable devices as normal user
+
+pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal
+users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This
+provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia
+project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.
+
+This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some
+information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes them
+to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this feature.
+
+If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to
+transparently mount encrypted volumes.
+
+This requires ivman and HAL, both of which are available at SlackBuilds.org.
+
+The user executing 'pmount' probably via 'ivman-launch' must be a member
+of the 'plugdev' system group (which is required by HAL).