FS#20335 - Mounting Internal hard drives, permission errors

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by kane (kane) - Sunday, 01 August 2010, 17:54 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 01 August 2010, 19:27 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Mounting internal partition/hard drive using nautilus.
Clicking on a drive or partition to mount in nautilus pops up a dialogue box asking for root password "Authentication is required to mount the device".
However the user is in the storage groups.
Tested on partition types: fat, ext3.

If a usb drive is inserted, the device mounts fine without asking for a password.

I believe this is handled by HAL or policykit/consolekit, therefore the mount points are created on the fly (therefore no user permissions can be set on the directory?)


Steps to reproduce:
In gnome click on: Places -> Removable Media -> Select internal drive (which has not been automounted with fstab)
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 01 August 2010, 19:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  This is designed behaviour. Mounting internal devices is only allowed for root by the default policy. The storage group doesn't do anything for udisks/policykit.

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