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Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized



On 2011-02-18, Chris <bbshliu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:05:22PM +0800, Michael Tsang wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 16:37:09 Chris wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> > 
>> > Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from
>> > nautilus. It works before.
>> > The error message is:
>> > 
>> > Unable to mount [device]
>> > Not Authorized
>> Is it something related to PolicyKit?
>
> Could you please explain more?
> I have configured policykit before.
>
> I have /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-localauthority.conf
> with the contents:
> [filesystems mount internal privs]
> Identity=unix-group:mygroup
> Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
> ResultAny=no
> ResultInactive=no
> ResultActive=yes
>
> It enabled me to mount my internal drives in nautilus without typing
> the admin password. But it doesn't work now.
>
>

According to the pklocalauthority man page (in squeeze), that file
should have a .pkla extension and its name must be unique.

Worth a try.

-- 
Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland



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