Sure =) $ id uid=1000(flavio) gid=100(users) > groups=100(users),10(wheel),81(dbus),82(hal),90(network),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),97(camera),98(power) On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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 > -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
