[SOLVED] USB and mount the partition as a normal user

happ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 117

I have a problem with the mount, USB disks and disk partitions by ordinary mplayer environment LXDE with "pcmanfm" - root account and everything works ok

user belongs to the group

SamuliSuominen · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:40 pm Post subject:

*.pkla file format is obsolete and doesn't work anymore, but there is compability package sys-auth/polkit-pkla-compat that makes them work again.

but instead of installing sys-auth/polkit-pkla-compat, you should use *.rules files that go to /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/, you can look examples from here:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit#Allow_mounting_a_filesystem_on_a_system_device_for_any_user

and here (notice the directory has both, old *.pkla and new *.rules for comparison):

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/networkmanager/files/

and here (notice the directory has both, old *.pkla and new *.rules for comparison):

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/modemmanager/files/

and you should verify your ConsoleKit session is working correctly, using first post of this thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html

happ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 117

I did as you said and I was not working but looking for further reasons and it turned out that I had not included some flag in the file "make.conf"

I solved the problem by using the command