Christian Weeks schrieb: > Hi > I've just noticed that recent HAL changes have broken the click to mount > of nautilus. > > When I click any hard disk type device, I now get a fun and useful popup > and the disk doesn't mount: > > "Cannot mount volume." > "Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy." > Details: "hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000" (1000 is me) > >>From the hal (0.5.9-1) changelog: > - debian/patches/55_nonpolkit-mount-policy.patch > (containing this): > + /* root can do everything; only allow handling removable > devices > + * without uid change to non-root users */ > + if (!invoked_by_uid || strcmp(invoked_by_uid, "0")) > + if (!privilege || strcmp (privilege, > "hal-storage-removable-mount")) > + permission_denied_privilege (privilege, > invoked_by_uid); > > So, in summary, it appears a whole new privileges system has arrived. > Except that I cannot control it. A bit of research indicates that the > "PolicyKit" is supposed to manage these privileges. Is there any > information on when policykit is going to be debianised? I looked at the > pkg-utopia svn repository and there is nothing there that appears to be > ready- or even recent (several months have passed since the last code > commit). > > If PolicyKit is going to be some time in development, could we at least > fall back to where we were before this patch: i.e. anyone can mount > anything? Or do I have to install etch's hal (and all that pain) to > bring back what I want? > > PS. Command line solutions are all well and good, but what the point of > the UI then? > It would be a non negligible security risk, if every user could mount all non-removable (fixed) devices. If you want to allow that, configure your fixed mount points via /etc/fstab (with the user option). For removable devices (external usb drives, cd-rom etc), everything should work out of the box. If and when PolicyKit will land in Debian, I can't tell yet. First it has to mature. It changed quite a lot during the last months and simply was/is to much in flux to be packaged. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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