Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57914
spurious automount messages in system log
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i586) Description of problem: Every interactive login/out generates spurious automount messages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-0.75-19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login or logout at the gdm screen 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 41572 [details] /var/log/messages
The messages don't appear if I use /misc instead of /mnt as my automount directory. This is an easy workaround, but the messages shouldn't appear regardless.
The mount attempts are being triggered because pam_console is attempting to give the user permission to access those directories. This is used to make hotplugging work. If you don't want those directories touched, you'll need to remove references to those directories from /etc/security/console.perms. For what it's worth, it hits me on my workstation at work as well (I also modify the automounter configuration from its default, which doesn't cause this to happen), but it works the way it's supposed to, so I'm closing this as won't fix.