Re: SATA HD hotplug "Authentication is required"

[Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org>]

Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> writes:
>> > I have just added an eSATA outlet on my box; when I plug in a SATA
>> > disk, it is visible in gparted, its label is displayed in the Places
>> > column of PCManfm, but when I click on it I get an error
>> > "Authentication is required".
[...]
> Thanks; I should have asked:
>
> How do I get it to automount (without asking for authentification) ?

I think udisks treats drives attached via eSATA as "system" devices for
which the default policykit rules only allow mounting with
authentication.  These should show up as "HintSystem: true" in the
output of "udisksctl dump".

You could try marking them as UDISKS_SYSTEM=0 in a udev rule. See [1]
for how to do so.

Ansgar

  [1] <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mark_internal_SATA_ports_as_eSATA>