nautilus ignores options in /etc/fstab

Bug #865026 reported by Brian Vaughan
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 11.10
nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5

Unlike in Ubuntu 11.04, nautilus now lists unmounted partitions in the left panel, and allows regular users to mount them, even if /etc/fstab specifies "nouser", and otherwise ignores options defined in /etc/fstab, if the mount point in /etc/fstab is "none". Specifying a mount point inhibits nautilus from listing the unmounted partitions.

For example, my /etc/fstab included the following:
UUID=C25CE7335CE72141 none ntfs noauto,nouser,ro 0 0

Through nautilus, I could mount this partition, create files, and delete them, as a regular user. Obviously, given the options, this is not desired behavior. Changing the line so that there was a defined mount point, as below, inhibits this behavior, so that a regular user does not see the partition listed in nautilus:
UUID=C25CE7335CE72141 /etc/Gateway ntfs noauto,nouser,ro 0 0

As dual-boot configurations are common among Ubuntu users, this is likely to be a common occurrence.

visibility: private → public
visibility: private → public
affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) → udisks (Ubuntu)
security vulnerability: yes → no
security vulnerability: yes → no
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Brian Vaughan (bgvaughan) wrote :

Could Bug #730023 and Bug #839118 be related to this?

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