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Today's Topics:
1. Gnome 2.26 can't write to vfat (N B Day)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:07:42 -0700
From: N B Day <nbday@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Gnome 2.26 can't write to vfat
To: gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx
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I'm using Gnome 2.26 on openSUSE. The new regime with PolicyKit seems
unduly restrictive: desktop users don't seem to be able to set power
management, write to or delete from mounted vfat formatted usb keys, or
(even when su root) do *anything* with the "Authorizations" module in
the Gnome Control Center.
I fixed the last with polkit-auth by just fooling around, but since the
man page for this assumes you know all about it already and just need to
be reminded of some of the more obscure arguments, I'm now terrified
I've done something stupid and left myself wide open.
Three questions:
1. Is there any documentation for these changes in the default powers of
ordinary users from 2.2x to 2.26? I couldn't find any mention of this
in the announcement and "Whats new" pages for 2.26. The defaults seem
to be lunatic so there should be some easy way to understand and change
them.
2. How do I enable ordinary users to write to their (almost invariably)
vfat formatted usb drives?
3. Who decided these things: what the hell is freedesktop.org anyway and
why do they suddenly seem to control what I can and cannot do with my
computer? What's the point of the "Authorizations" module in the
Control Center if *nobody* can do anything with it by default?
Thanks!
The problem here (usually) is that the USB key has a mount point, this
prevents mounting with the required privileges for normal users.
The way to overcome this is, in Mandriva, to use the disk tool in MCC
and delete the mount point. This normally resolves the problem. Then
pull it out and plug it in again and it should now automount properly.
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