eSATA external drive requires password to mount
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: devicekit-disks
When I plug in an eSATA external hard drive, it would appear in the Places menu but not automount (which is also a bit of a problem, but see bug #452256). When I clicked on it in the Places menu, it would then mount and I could access my files. Since upgrading to Karmic, it asks me for a password before mounting. This is a bit of an annoyance. Presumably, non-administrator users (at least, those with the "Access external storage devices automatically" permission) should be able to mount external hard drives without an administrator password. At the very least, I don't see why the security policy for USB hard drives and eSATA hard drives should be different.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CustomUdevRuleF
Date: Sat Nov 7 15:27:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: System76, Inc. Pangolin Performance
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3 [modified: usr/bin/
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 04/06/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: 1.02.22
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: Pangolin Performance
dmi.board.vendor: System76, Inc.
dmi.board.version: panp5
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: Pangolin Performance
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: System76, Inc.
devkit-disks seems to detect it as non-internal just fine:
Showing information for /org/freedeskto p/DeviceKit/ Disks/devices/ sdb1
system internal: 0
Can you please expand the "details" section of that authentication dialog and either copy&paste the text from there or make a screenshot? Does it really ask for the org.freedesktop .devicekit. disks.filesyste m-mount- system- internal privilege?