Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:19:34 -0400 From: Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk@ncf.ca> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't automount without being root Message-ID: <1763ae175e68.175e681763ae@ncf.ca>
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----- Original Message -----
From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com>
Date: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:11 pm
Subject: Re: Can't automount without being root
> Dwayne MacKinnon writes:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm using KDE-3.5.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Since the HAL
> upgrade I can't
> > automount as an "ordinary" user anymore. I get the following
> error message in
> > Konqueror:
> >
> > org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)
> >
> > Automounting as root is fine. My user, btw, is set up as a
> member of both the
> > wheel and operator groups.
> >
>
> I just posted my experiences with the upgrade to gnome 2.22 and
> mentioned this trick:
>
> : My usb memory stick to automount would not automagically mount,
> even : though I'm in the operator group. Some googling suggested
> that I
> : should add:
> : <match action="org.freedesktop.halstorage.mount-removable">
> : <return result="yes">
> : </match>
> : to /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf. Now my memory stick
> : mounts automagically. Is this normally required? Did I miss it in
> : the freebsd gnome FAQ or should it be added?
>
> I don't know if it should have been necessary, but it seems to have
> helped.
>
> g.
Thanks for the tip, George.
I looked around at the man page for PolicyKit.conf and found that the
following config allowed the behavior I'd come to expect:
<config version="0.1">
<define_admin_auth group="operator"/>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<return result="auth_admin"/>
</match>
</config>
Cheers,
Dwayne MacKinnon
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