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Package: pmount (0.9.20-2)

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.

Tags: System Administration: Filesystem Tool, Hardware Support, Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility

Other Packages Related to pmount

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  • dep: libblkid1 (>= 2.16)
    block device id library
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.4)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2)
    simple interprocess messaging system
  • dep: libhal-storage1 (>= 0.5.8.1)
    Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library for storage devices
  • dep: libhal1 (>= 0.5.8.1)
    Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library
  • sug: cryptsetup (>= 1.0)
    configures encrypted block devices
  • sug: hal
    Hardware Abstraction Layer

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