[arch-general] Automounting internal devices in Gnome
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
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc@gmail.com> 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
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@itech7.com>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc@gmail.com> 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
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)
Create the same file under /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d directory with .pkla extension. (not .conf) See "man pklocalauthority" for furher details. Regards, Samed.
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Flavio Costa
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Nilesh Govindarajan
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Samed Beyribey