Journal hardcodes USB mounting as UID=500

[morgs]

Sucrose 0.82.x

​https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar-journal-activity/+bug/297479

It appears that there is a hard coded UID for mounting USB flash drives.

In Journal.activity/volumesmanager.py
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MOUNT_OPTION_UID = 500
--

This should use the UID of the actual user on the system who is running Sugar. Note: there may be more than one user active in a multiseat/thin client system.
On a one user Ubuntu system, the UID of the user is 1000. On a multi user system, the UIDs will vary.

[mungewell]

The same code has be moved to:
[sugar] / src / jarabe / model / volume.py

Although there is a note in [sugar] / src / jarabe / journal / volumestoolbar.py that the mounting of USB drives has been disabled for now.

[mungewell]

Brief reading around this subject... might ConsoleKit and PolicyKit be useful in this situation, if you want to add the dependencies.

Otherwise the volumestoolbar should use the current UID and hope that there is no-one else active on the machine.

[marcopg]

Yeah sounds like we should be using CK here.

[tomeu]

That's only 0.82, in 0.83 we are already using GIO for that and I tested as working on non-XOs.

[gregdek]

Since this is fixed in the current release, and since we do not currently have manpower to backport fixes to older releases, we are closing this bug.

[gregdek]

Closing properly as "obsolete".