new thing to make people turn crazy

[Todd Denniston]

François Patte wrote, On 03/17/2009 04:08 PM:
> 
> Bonsoir,
> 
> I plugged an usb drive on my computer and, instead of being mounted as
> usual, a popup window opened claiming that some application was trying
> to mount a device and... I had to enter the root password!!!
> 
> What's this mess?
> 
> The story is not finished: I discovered a config tool for this in
> System>Prefs>system>permission which run the polkit-gnome-authorization.
> 
> *As a simple user*, not root, I found a line:
> 
> "mount file systems from removable drive" for which the permission is
> set, by default, to: "No" for everybody.
> 
> *as simple user* (again), I changed this permission to yes for everybody!!!!
> 
> I am wondering what is the meaning of this: either it is something that
> everybody can do and no tool is needed, or it is important that only
> root can modify some system wide config and, in that case this tool is a
> nonsense.
> 


You might also enjoy following this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-March/msg00934.html
and these bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489397
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450304

which discuss some interesting things about PolicyKit and DeviceKit.

Hopefully the reason you could change the "mount file systems from removable 
drive" permissions was because you first entered the root password for the 
first popup, if however it was not then please open a bug describing that 
problem.  it would be new but related to 450304.

-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter