Re: (SOLVED) Debian Testing usb device permission only root
On Fri 16 Sep 2011 at 11:53:19 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:29:58 -0500, Johnny wrote:
>
> > I have been googling to fix this problem I did find a solution to fix it
> > and I did not have GDM installed, I was using slim to login so I
> > installed GDM3 and now the usb devices can mount and I can add files as
> > a user now with no problem
>
> Hum... I'm not sure how a login manager could have solved this, maybe
> gdm3 pulled the required packages to get the USB device to be properly
> addressed and set by udev rules.
The KDE, XFCE and GNOME metapackages all install consolekit. Consolekit
is picky about what it will talk with to set up authorisation via
policykit for mounting, shutdown, rebooting etc. Kdm, gdm3 and lightdm
are the best of friends with it and keep on its good side by saying the
right things,
Slim and xdm don't know the right form of words to put them on a par
with the other DMs (slim is unmaintained and xorg hasn't altered xdm
yet) so their users don't get to mount usb devices from the desktop.
It is possible to sneak past consolekit if you don't mind losing the
ability to have seats.
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