Re: [kde] Permission to mount denied by Policy. What Policy?

James Kerr wrote:
On Sunday 23 August 2009 rcdawson@xxxxxxx wrote:


I am using Mandriva 2009.1. I found my self re-installing on a new
hard drive in order to get my video card to work. After the
re-install I reconnected the old drive (keeping the new drive in
place) and rebooted. My plan was to copy my old home directory.
After reboot I found the old hard drive had been mounted as two
"volumes" showing up in Dolphin. When I tried to open either of
those volumes I received a message
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always
<--(action,result).

How do I get around this Policy? Would it apply to any hard drive
I install, or is it responding to the fact that Mandriva and KDE
are installed on the second disk?

I suppose this is a matter of curisity more than necessity, at
least at the moment. I have copied my home to a USB drive, and
that mounts OK and is accessible. For future reference, however,
this would be useful information.


Policy is that you must be root to mount a partition on an internal
hard drive.

The solution is to add the partition to /etc/fstab. You can use
drakdisk (as root) to do this.

Jim

I have used Kubuntu since 7.04/KDE3.x. All my internal drives are
available with no problems, and I don't have to be "root" to access
them. I can move and swap files around as I please even to the Windows
XP drive.

--
Treat all stressful situations like a dog does.
If you can't eat it or play with it,
just pee on it and walk away

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