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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:39 am    Post subject: Unable to mount devices without desktop environment. Reply with quote
I've recently switched from an xfce setup to a bspwm one. I've been ironing out all the problems that I've been having and I've noticed that I can't mount any devices with a non-root user.
Using Spacefm I get the error message:
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Error creating textual authentication agent: Error opening current controlling terminal for the process (`/dev/tty'): No such device or address (polkit-error-quark, 0)
Error mounting /dev/sdc1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.NotAuthorizedCanObtain: Not authorized to perform operation

And from a terminal I get "Only root can do that"

You've probably guessed that this is probably just a permission issue and you're probably right, but I'm not sure what groups/permissions that the user must be given access to in order to fix the problem. Could someone shed some light on this?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Perhaps there's some problem with Polkit...
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you :D , it was polkit. I had to give permission to the user in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/10-udisks.rules.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm glad you fixed the problem. :) Please remember to mark this thread as [SOLVED]. Thanks.
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