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.
GTK icons
udiskie comes with a set of themeable custom Tango-style GTK icons for its tray icon menu. The installer tries to install the icons into GTK’s default hicolor theme. Typically this is located in /usr/share/icons/hicolor. If you have any problems with this or you need a custom path you can manually do it like so:
cp ./icons/scalable /usr/share/icons/hicolor -r
gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolorThe icons roughly follow the Tango style guidelines. Some icons incorporate the CDROM icon of the base icon theme of the Tango desktop project (released into the public domain).
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.
CHANGELOG
0.6.2 (aesthetic)
add custom icons for the context menu of the system tray widget
0.6.1 (bug fix)
fix udisks2 external device detection bug: all devices were considered external when using Sniffer (as done in the udiskie-mount and udiskie-umount tools)
0.6.0 (udisks2 support, bug fix)
cache device states to avoid some race conditions
show filesystem label in mount/unmount notifications
retry to unlock LUKS devices when wrong password was entered twice
show ‘eject’ only if media is available (udisks1 ejects only in this case)
(un-) mount/lock notifications shown even when operations failed
refactor internal API
experimental support for udisks2
0.5.3 (feature, bug fix)
add ‘__ignore__’ config file option to prevent handling specific devices
delay notifications until termination of long operations
0.5.2 (tray icon)
add tray icon (pygtk based)
eject / detach drives from command line
0.5.1 (mainly internal changes)
use setuptools entry points to create the executables
make udiskie a namespace package
0.5.0 (LUKS support)
support for LUKS devices (using zenity for password prompt)
major refactoring
use setuptools as installer
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