Hello,

I want all USB-Devices (Hard-disks, USB-Sticks) that are plugged into a Slackware 13 be mounted as read-only.
How do I achieve this?

Greetings and thanks for your help

Oliver

Explain exactly how they are being mounted, and who can write there.
Can users mount usb sticks?
Have you any entries in /etc/fstab

I want to setup some PCs as something like a KIOSKSystem.

It is a standard-Slackware 13 Installation with KDE.

And I don't want the users to carry away any files from this PC.


I hope this helps....


Greetings and thanks a lot...
Oliver

OK. So kde uses some automounting tool, doesn't it. I haven't used kde in years. I see it as bloatware.
but get to that tool, and try to configure that. Also, lines in /etc/fstab are cheap. Why not add linnes for sdb1, sdb2, sdb3, sdb4, sdc1, sdc2 etc with a 'ro' option. Then all are mounted read only

I created a file in:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/

File: mypreferences.fdi
#for all possible devices: sdb / sdc / sdd ...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="block.device" contains="sdb">
<merge key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">umask=555</merge>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">ro</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noatime</append><-->....
</match>
</device>

If the Stick is NTFS this won't work:
so I did:
/sbin/mount.ntfs -> copy to mount.ntfs.si

# added: -o ro,...

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/ntfs-3g $1 $2 -o ro,gid=100,dmask=002,fmask=113


Hope someone else can use this !!

Greetings Olli