[arch-general] Automounting internal devices in Gnome

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc at 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 ?

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