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Issues may occur where you may not be able to mount USB drives (or other drives) outside of root. Using root is not a real option as you'd need to be able to copy/paste conveniently. The issue may be polkit related - a piece of software that is used to authorise users to do things. Create and add this to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-consolekit.pkla (under root); | Issues may occur where you may not be able to mount USB drives (or other drives) outside of root. Using root is not a real option as you'd need to be able to copy/paste conveniently. The issue may be polkit related - a piece of software that is used to authorise users to do things. Create and add this to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-consolekit.pkla (under root); | ||
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[udisks] | [udisks] | ||
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Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.* | Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.* | ||
ResultAny=yes | ResultAny=yes | ||
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Revision as of 15:36, 31 May 2018
Issues may occur where you may not be able to mount USB drives (or other drives) outside of root. Using root is not a real option as you'd need to be able to copy/paste conveniently. The issue may be polkit related - a piece of software that is used to authorise users to do things. Create and add this to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-consolekit.pkla (under root);
[udisks] Identity=unix-group:scan Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.* ResultAny=yes [udisks2] Identity=unix-group:scan Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.* ResultAny=yes
