Can anybody please help me to authenticate for removable drives. I have tried the following but none of the file listed seem to be in my file system. I'm using Ubuntu 12.4
First of all, backup the file. Open a terminal and run:
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cd /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ sudo cp org.freedesktop.udisks.policy org.freedesktop.udisks.policy-backup cd
then open the file:
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gksu gedit usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy
An entry in the file looks like this:
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<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount"> <description>Mount a device</description> <message>Authentication is required to mount the device</message> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action>
The description of each entry is self-explanatory, it's in human readable format.
Now if you want password authentication by an admin user in order to mount an external drive, then change the authentication mode from yse to auth_admin or auth_admin_keep (it's like auth_admin but the authorization is kept for a brief period):
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<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount"> <description>Mount a device</description> <message>Authentication is required to mount the device</message> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> </defaults> </action>
You can change the authentication mode in other entries in a similar way.
Save the file and close the editor & you're done.
The above was for ubuntu 9.10 so maybe things have changed since then.
Thanks for any advise.
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