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policykit-desktop-privileges package

  1. Bug #1568149
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1568149

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

The policykit-desktop-privileges package was changed in 2011 to allow writing images without a password:

policykit-desktop-privileges (0.7) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Allow local admins to do the less harmful usb-creator actions (mounting
    and writing image) without a password.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:12:36 +0200

The user still needs to be in the admin group.

Is this no longer sufficient?