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How can I mount a usb device in KDE as a normal user?

When a USB drive is plugged in, an icon pops up in the KDE panel.
Clicking on it shows the "Device Notifier" screen. But when I click on
the "open with file manager" bubble in this screen, it says "you are
not authorized to mount this device".

FWIW, I can mount this device as a normal user on the command line using
% pmount /dev/sdf1

which mounts the device on /media/sdf1. The problem is only with the
KDE device notifier. Any ideas how to solve this?

 % dpkg -l pmount
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                     Version
Architecture              Description
+++-========================================-=========================-=========================-======================================================================================
ii  pmount                                   0.9.23-3+b1
amd64                     mount removable devices as normal user

 % id
uid=1000(rajulocal) gid=1000(rajulocal)
groups=1000(rajulocal),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),107(bluetooth),109(netdev),122(lpadmin)

 % inxi -r | grep -v "deb-src"
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates
main contrib non-free
           deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free

thanks
raju
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