Do not require a password every time to mount internal disks
Bug #465054 reported by
nikman
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
In Karmic, users are required to enter their password each time when they want to mount a system-internal disk.
In Jaunty and earlier it was possible to keep the policykit privilege forever, but that has been rightfully abandoned in polkit-1 as bad design. A better solution is to ship vendor specific policy extensions (see man pklocalauthority).
Changed in devicekit-disks (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Medium → High |
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polkit- policy- file-validate does not apply to the new-style files in /usr/share/polkit-1 (it's for the old policykit).
The password issue is a common complaint, I'll devote this report to that.