Thomas G.

That would be great! For the record, the udisks team seems to be unwilling to add mtp to the udisks featureset itself.

> Hi! > > udiskie is really nice @coldfix thanks! > I'm also missing MTP support, I know nothing about D-Bus, but if I start dbus-monitor and plug my cellphone...

So I took a quick look. It seems this is an undocumented private interface of gvfs-mtp (`org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor`) for use by other gvfs tools. So this will probably take some reading...

Nice! You seem to know more about this than me :) A pyudev based solution might also be a good option. By the way: mounting via gvfs should also provide...

The permissions are defined using polkit rules, see [Permissions](https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/wiki/Permissions). It's possible to give yourself only unlocking but no unlocking authorization. It also plays a role from which seat (ssh/tty/desktop/systemd) you...

Oh wait, I didn't fully read through your post. So your situation is that first you unlock+mount the USB drive as root as part of your boot process, and then...

Another possibility that may prevent locking even in case of sufficient authorizations is if your device is known in `/etc/crypttab` under a different mapper name than it was opened as....

Sounds reasonable.

Hey, true. I don't think it's a huge problem, since launching multiple udiskie instances can easily be avoided on the user side, but I'm nevertheless open to adding a single-instance...

See https://github.com/coldfix/udiskie/wiki/Permissions