From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:47:55 +0000 Subject: Re: Passing ADD/REMOVE events to logged on users Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel