Re: [Halevt-dev] Can't mount devices for admins in SUM

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 04:27:20PM -0700, Brown, Tony-P56943 wrote:
> 
> Once logged in, we want to start halevt on his behalf so he can insert
> some media and archive the audit logs so the system can be recovered and
> the PU can get back to work.   However, if we start halevt just like we
> do in runlevel 5, it starts but it mounts no media.  

My first guess is an issue with consolekit. Do you use consolekit?
If so, can you list the PA session? Also you can start halevt on a 
console without going in the background, with the -f option and see 
what it reports.

> If we execute
> without specifying a user, like this: halevt -c
> /etc/hapRMM_B/.halevt/hapHalevtConfigActions.xls it will then mount the
> media, however, it is owned by root with permissions 775, and the PA
> cannot access the device to write the audit logs.

That looks correct, but indeed, not what you want.

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Pat