On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Before Gnome 2.28 (I've been using Arch since 2.22, I guess), Gnome used to > be able to mount my internal devices (in this case some NTFS partitions I > have, and yes use Windows sometimes...) automatically (I just had to grant > a > permission on a neat GTK interface). > I guess that magic used to happen due to a set of softwares working > together, those being HAL, DBus, PolicyKit and Gnome. > > When Gnome 2.28 came out (and also devicekit-*, the replacement of > policykit > with polkit and the deprecation of HAL) this neat magic dissapeared and > I've > looked for many solutions in the forums or in others places but I couldn't > found one. > > Everytime I want to use those extra NTFS partitions, I have to manually > click one the "Places" menu and select the device, after clicking I'm > prompted for my root password. I type it and the disk is mounted. > But that's boring (all my musics are stored on the NTFS partition, so > everytime I want to listen to them I have to do this). > > I even managed to supress the prompting for the password but I believe that > due to some update that stopped working. > > $ cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/61-custom.conf > > [Automount Devices] > > Identities=unix-group:storage > > Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.* > > ResultActive=yes > > ResultAny=no > > ResultInactive=no > > > The above doesn't work anymore (I have to enter the password everytime). > > So despite of fstab, does anyone knows the solution or a workaround for > this > problem? > > -- > Flávio Coutinho da Costa > According to the above config, do you belong to the group storage ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com
