User disk mounting

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Fri Jan 15 10:52:37 UTC 2010


On 01/15/2010 06:09 AM, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Hi - Using dolphin I (or any user) can click on an unmounted system disk (an
> internal SATA drive, with a hard disk icon) and it is mounted without any
> passwords with a single click. This is Fedora 12 x86-64.
>
> I can't see why this should be enabled by default from the polkit
> configuration:
>
> xx:/home/jss:# pkaction --action-id
> org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal --verbose
> org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal:
>    description:       Mount a system-internal device
>    message:           Authentication is required to mount the device
>    vendor:            The DeviceKit Project
>    vendor_url:        http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/
>    icon:              drive-removable-media
>    implicit any:      no
>    implicit inactive: no
>    implicit active:   auth_admin_keep
>
> xx:/home/jss:# pkaction --action-id
> org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount --verbose
> org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount:
>    description:       Mount a device
>    message:           Authentication is required to mount the device
>    vendor:            The DeviceKit Project
>    vendor_url:        http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/
>    icon:              drive-removable-media
>    implicit any:      no
>    implicit inactive: no
>    implicit active:   yes
>
> If it's an internal disk, I would have thought filesystem-mount-system-
> internal was the appropriate option, but this is set to auth_admin_keep
> which should pop up a dialog box asking for a password.
>
> Is there another setting I should be looking at?

Is there an entry for the drive in /etc/fstab ? If so, is the user 
option set?


>
> Thanks
> Jeremy.
>
>
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