Users should be able to umount volumes

Bug #59415 reported by DiegoCG
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #12154: Nautilus should have a superuser mode. Edit Remove
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have a windows NTFS partition, the ubuntu installer mounted that partition by default and gnome shows an icon that gets me into the filesystem when I double click it. Fine. The problem is that when I right-click the icon and I select "umount volume", I get an erro dialog telling me that "only root can umount..."

This is not the right behaviour for ubuntu. In other places of the ubuntu desktop, users are asked for their passwords (if the users belong to the wheel group, ie: like the default user created by then installer) when they need to run a admin app. Umounting a volume shouldn't be different. It's even worse: There's "no root" user in ubuntu, so you just can't umount a volume using a gui, only using the command line (sudo umount /foo) is possible. The current behaviour is wrong and breaks the consistency with the rest of the desktop.

DiegoCG (diegocg)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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