On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:11 -0800, Zack wrote: > This will likely fix the problem for you. Put this in > /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and restart hal, /etc/rc.d/hal restart. > > <config version="0.1"> > <match user="yourusername"> > <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*"> > <return result="yes" /> > </match> > <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options"> > <return result="yes" /> > </match> > <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options"> > <return result="yes" /> > </match> > </match> > </config> Remember that this configuration inside policykit will allow EACH and EVERY user on your system to do these actions, which is wrong. There's consolekit for this. Sessions should either be launched via kdm or gdm which have native consolekit support, or using ck-launch-session when starting from xinitrc. There's also a pam module that can be used, but somehow it doesn't always work fine (slim doesn't work with it at least).