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cannot mount internal drive from the desktop as normal user (debian et al., xfce et al.)
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asdf
Sep 25, 2012, 2:55:32 PM9/25/12
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I was given an old pc by a friend to install Linux on it, so I chose
Debian and XFCE as a desktop environment as I always do with all my
machines. Everything went fine, but mounting local drives from the
desktop is impossible for normal users. If an user clicks on a device
icon a requester asks for root password then mounts the disk with root
write permission which makes it unusable by a normal user.
After some searches it turned out to be a known bug on multiple
distributions, but trying every suggested workaround gave no results.
This apparently affects also USB drives, which would be even worse,
though I still didn't attempt that.
Did anyone have the same problem and could suggest a 100% sure way to get
rid of it? I have pretty much tried everything I found googling for that
problem.
Issuing a mount on the command line is not an option of course. I also
would like to keep things as trasparent as possible, therefore a boot
time mount on /etc/fstab would be the last resort.
Thanks!
Debian and XFCE as a desktop environment as I always do with all my
machines. Everything went fine, but mounting local drives from the
desktop is impossible for normal users. If an user clicks on a device
icon a requester asks for root password then mounts the disk with root
write permission which makes it unusable by a normal user.
After some searches it turned out to be a known bug on multiple
distributions, but trying every suggested workaround gave no results.
This apparently affects also USB drives, which would be even worse,
though I still didn't attempt that.
Did anyone have the same problem and could suggest a 100% sure way to get
rid of it? I have pretty much tried everything I found googling for that
problem.
Issuing a mount on the command line is not an option of course. I also
would like to keep things as trasparent as possible, therefore a boot
time mount on /etc/fstab would be the last resort.
Thanks!
kcGSH6nC
Sep 29, 2012, 1:44:05 PM9/29/12
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to be manually mounting or using fstab.
J G Miller
Sep 29, 2012, 2:05:28 PM9/29/12
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On Saturday, September 29th, 2012, at 13:44:05h -0400, kcGSH6nC pondered:
> Sounds like your HAL configuration is borked.
XFCE has not used HAL since release version 4.8
<http://gezeiten.ORG/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-released!>
udev is now used for device detection so it is the udev
rules which need to be considered for possible modification
and setting the group ownership appropriately and/or
looking at the mount command by thunar and setting the
necessary group permission or group mask in the mount
command.
> Sounds like your HAL configuration is borked.
<http://gezeiten.ORG/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-released!>
udev is now used for device detection so it is the udev
rules which need to be considered for possible modification
and setting the group ownership appropriately and/or
looking at the mount command by thunar and setting the
necessary group permission or group mask in the mount
command.
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