Hi,

when one uses pmount to mount a crypted volume, one forgets how to use
cryptsetup. Thus, it is hard to fsck the crypted file system since
pmount immediately mounts the file system.

Please consider implementing a --no-mount option which does everything
short of the actual mount and optionally prints the device name so
that one can manually fsck the volume.

Greetings
Marc

  Hello,

Marc Haber wrote:

  Sorry for the late reply, I'm slowly trying to lower the number of
accumulated bugs for pmount...

  I'm afraid I don't really see the point of this option: unless I'm
very much mistaken, you will need to be root to fsck the unmounted
device, so there is nothing that pmount will be able to bring.

  If you really want to know what pmount is doing so you are able to
reproduce it by hand (being root, of course), just launch it with the
--debug switch.

  I'm a little reluctant to modify pmount more than is necessary, as it
is used to give privileges to (not-so-trusted) users.

  Cheers,

	Vincent

It saves one from remembering the correct options for cryptsetup, and
one could allow the users to fsck the volume via sudo.

That output is rather copious.

It's your prerogative to tag the bug wontfix or even close it, it's
wishlist after all.

Greetings
Marc

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pmount, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

pmount_0.9.99-alpha-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.99-alpha-1.debian.tar.gz
pmount_0.9.99-alpha-1.dsc
  to main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.99-alpha-1.dsc
pmount_0.9.99-alpha-1_amd64.deb
  to main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.99-alpha-1_amd64.deb
pmount_0.9.99-alpha.orig.tar.bz2
  to main/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.99-alpha.orig.tar.bz2



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 488627@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> (supplier of updated pmount package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:03:07 +0100
Source: pmount
Binary: pmount
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.9.99-alpha-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>
Changed-By: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>
Description:
 pmount     - mount removable devices as normal user
Closes: 373580 431286 488627 513431 542779 615979 616019
Changes:
 pmount (0.9.99-alpha-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream experimental release, bringing in a lot of new features:
     - fscking (closes: #513431, #488627, #542779, since all of these bugs,
       though different, come from the impossibility to run fsck on a
       filesystem before mounting)
     - now by default forbidding mounts by users not physically logged in,
       which prevents mount races (closes: #431286)
     - whitelisting firewire (closes: #616019)
     - checking the sanity of the target device before attempting to mount
       it, which in particular prevents long errors with a 'no medium found'
       error (closes: #615979)
     - finally opening the possibility to mount user images through loop
       devices (closes: #373580)
   * Added a news entry about the new configuration file
   * Update watchfile to accept -alpha in the release number
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