Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:20:27PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>
> > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm
> > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount
> > a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to
> > mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount
> > removable media automatically.
> >
> > This seems to have been a problem from the start of 4.8; there's quite a
> > bit of discussion of this for Arch Linux and Slackware, but I can't find
> > anything useful for Debian. It seems to be an issue with ConsoleKit, but
> > the solutions for Arch don't really apply for Debian as the setup is
> > different. There was a discussion of this in the Debian forum when 4.8
> > came out at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63088&start=60
> > but there was no clean answer.
>
> The root cause is indeed consolekit. Have a try with this:
>
> In /etc/pam.d/common-session insert the line
>
> session optional pam_loginuid.co
(I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so")
> just before
>
> session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11
>
> Log out and log in again. Or reboot. This works on my machines (and
> should solve your restart/shut down problem also) but there is a plan B
> if needed.
I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect
on USB-device mounting or on the restart/shutdown display.
Thanks.
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