From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Passing ADD/REMOVE events to logged on users
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:47:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-101410506801032@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-101409633016838@msgid-missing>
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 06:34, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I found it necessary to write a script that passes device hotplug events on
> to the logged on users of the system. For example, the user plugs in an MP3
> USB device and the device icon is added to the desktop (or the manager is
> opened, etc).
>
> It's not too long so I've simply attached it to this message. If this
> script (or one that performs the same function) were standardized then
> other packages could depend on the functionality provided by it.
>
> This is only a first pass, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to
> hear 'em. The intended functionality is this. This file lives as
> /etc/hotplug/usb/user and any usb.usermap devices that wish to be manged by
> it simply links 'ln -s /etc/hotplug/usb/user /etc/hotplug/usb/mydevice'.
> Whenever mydevice is plugged into the usb chain hotplug calls
> /etc/hotplug/usb/mydevice which in turn calls ~/.mydevicerc for each logged
> in user. If that device distributes a standard script for its plugin/remove
> action, the user can simply 'ln -s /etc/hotplug/usb/mydevicerc
> ~/.mydevicerc'.
Hi,
don't change the permissions. It's a security risk.
You must not die if a script fails, or a user can sabotage notification of other users.
Could you implement a blacklist of users who shall not be notified ?
Regards
Oliver
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2002-02-19 5:34 Passing ADD/REMOVE events to logged on users Shaun Jackman
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