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Subject: cannot mount internal drive from the desktop as normal user (debian
 et al., xfce et al.)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:55:32 +0000 (UTC)
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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!