Removable disk automounter for udisks
Project description
udiskie is a simple daemon that uses UDisks to automatically mount removable storage devices. This daemon comes with optional mount notifications and gtk tray icon. It also provides a user level CLI for mount and unmount operations.
Dependencies
UDisks required for all operation modes. UDisks2 support is experimental and has to be requested explicitly via command line parameter.
dbus-python required for all operation modes
PyGObject to run the automount/notification daemon (provides the main loop)
notify-python or notify2 for mount notifications
Zenity to unlock LUKS devices
PyGTK to show the system tray icon
Permissions
udiskie requires permission for the following PolicyKit actions:
org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount for mounting and unmounting
org.freedesktop.udisks.luks-unlock to unlock LUKS devices
org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-eject to eject drives
org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-detach to detach drives
These are usually granted when using a desktop environment. If your login session is not properly activated you may need to customize your PolicyKit settings. Create the file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-udiskie.pkla with the following contents:
[udiskie] Identity=unix-group:storage Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount;org.freedesktop.udisks.luks-unlock;org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-eject;org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-detach ResultAny=yes
This configuration allows all members of the storage group to run udiskie.
Alternatively, change the setting for allow_inactive to yes in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy:
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">
...
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
...
</action>
...
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.luks-unlock">
...
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
...
</action>
...
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-eject">
...
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
...
</action>
...
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-detach">
...
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
...
</action>Note that UDisks2 uses another set of permissions, see /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy.
Usage
The following entry points are defined:
udiskie to run the automount/notification daemon
udiskie-mount user level mount/unlock operations
udiskie-umount user level unmount/lock/eject/detach operations
See the man pages for further instructions
Contributing
udiskie is developed on github. Feel free to contribute patches as pull requests as you see fit.
Try to be consistent with PEP 8 guidelines as far as possible and test everything. Furthermore, your commit messages should start with a capitalized verb for consistency. Unless your modification is completely trivial, also add a message body to your commit.
Where possible dependency injection should be used to keep the module easily testable.
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