Require sudo password on partition mount

[WorMzy]

It appears that Lucid has done away with the gksu prompt that used to greet you when you try to mount a partition. Is there any known way of restoring this? I have a number of partitions which I would rather have protected by a password (even though I know that booting a live cd will give anyone access to any mountable partition, no questions asked). I've had a quick look in gconf and found nothing that looks like it would control this behaviour, but it's quite likely that I overlooked something. Does anybody have any ideas?

[Premium Jersey Milk]

Get Mount manager through synaptic. Run from system-admin-mount manager.

Select the drive on the left side, edit permissions from administrator to everyone in the right side panel.

Hope this helps, I had the same problem as you this morning and this worked for me.

[WorMzy]

Thank you for the reply, but that seems to be the inverse of what I am trying to achieve. I want to be prompted for my sudo user password when I try to mount a partition, currently it just mounts the drive without the prompt.

[mc4man]

In a terminal go

gksu gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla

For the first listed override change the ResultActive=yes to

ResultActive=auth_admin_keep

Or if you want to 'deactivate' all three included overrides then simply

sudo mv /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla.bak

First option is probably the best

[WorMzy]

Excellent, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

[maestrobwh1]

I want to do the opposite. I am the only user of my laptop and I want my data partition to be mounted and unmounted at will without a password prompt. Since Lucid does not have the "Policykit-Authorization" gui from SystemSettings (kde), I cannot pull this off now. I tried editing the above file and changed "admin" to my username but that made no difference.

I could just add it to fstab, but I should not have to. I feel Lucid KDE removed some decent user functionality by removing the "frontend" to policykit.

Is there a way to accomplish the bypassing of the password prompt?

[SoFl W]

In a terminal go <SNIP>

Thank you, This helped me as well.

[SoFl W]

I finally got around to installing 10.4 on my desktop and applied this. However I now need to use a password when I use a USB drive.
Is there anyway to require a password for a certain (Windows) partition but not for USB/external drives?

[clearblue]

@mc4man: RESPECT

I added an entry for the partitions i do not want in /etc/fstab and the symbols in nautilus disappeared imediatly when i saved fstab.

But the entries with the option users disappear too.

I hope the ability for normal users to mount the fstab entries also disappears.

[chaemil]

help. this is not working in ubuntu studio 10.04....