Auto-mount widget for Dom0 WM

[marmarek]

Reported by joanna on 25 Sep 2011 11:03 UTC
When the user connects a device to Dom0 (to make a backup) this widget should automatically ask for LUKS passwed and then mount the device.

Such applet already exists in standard KDE, it's just I cut it off some time ago when preparing the kde dom0 packages. So, we just need to locate it and bring it back to our kde dom0.

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/363

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 2 Nov 2011 18:51 UTC
Ok, so we don't actually want an auto-mount widget in Dom0, because it might be confusing the user in case the user 1) uses Dom0 as a Usb VM (which is currently default setup) and 2) wishes to connect the USB disk to some VM (instead of using it for a system backup).

So, a better solution would be to read the list of available storage device in Qubes manager as part of the backup procedure. We might find some python package that already knows how to treat a device that is a LUKS device and that automatically asks for a passphrase etc.

In other words this is now becoming parts of the Qubes Manager improvements/backup ticket (#364).

[marmarek]

Comment by joanna on 2 Nov 2011 18:51 UTC
Ok, so we don't actually want an auto-mount widget in Dom0, because it might be confusing the user in case the user 1) uses Dom0 as a Usb VM (which is currently default setup) and 2) wishes to connect the USB disk to some VM (instead of using it for a system backup).

So, a better solution would be to read the list of available storage device in Qubes manager as part of the backup procedure. We might find some python package that already knows how to treat a device that is a LUKS device and that automatically asks for a passphrase etc.

In other words this is now becoming parts of the Qubes Manager improvements/backup ticket (#364).