[SOLVED] hald can't automount read-only encrypted cd

[kyuso]

I've been archiving my data files encrypted using luks (cryptsetup) and burning to a cd.

When I put the cd back into the cdrom drive, the hal daemon recognizes the encrypted medium and asks for a password through the gnome desktop. But then it doesn't mount anything since it's a read-only media.

I've tested with read-write media like usb drive and they mount correctly without problems, so I'm sure it's the read-only part that hald doesn't like.

The only thing that needs put in is the '-r' option in cryptsetup luksOpen.

But how do I tell hal daemon to mount read-only encrypted media? Where exactly is the rule that says to run cryptsetup luksOpen?

[kyuso]

Sorry to respond to myself.

I've tracked down some info from a redhat site:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/012oct05/features/hal/

After finding more out about luks and hal, it seems like there is much more than just changing some simple rule files.

So either hal/gnome needs feature to know about read-only media and use appropriate command argument to luks, or luks/dm-crypt needs to be able to detect read-only media and automatically open it without '-r' option.

Until then, I'll be manually mounting from command-line. Not a problem, just a little inconvenient.