Bug#572668: nautilus: Volumes cannot be mounted in sudo mode.

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Mar 7 08:12:58 UTC 2010


Le vendredi 05 mars 2010 à 17:32 +0100, Rafael Belmonte a écrit :
> Since Gnome 2.28, volumes can be mounted just by clicking on them from nautilus, even if they are not in /etc/fstab, by asking for the root password first.
> When Debian is installed in sudo mode (no root password set), nautilus or policykit ask also for root password and they fail authentication.
> This could be also a bug in packages: policykit, sudo, or debian-installer.

I don’t know whether PolicyKit can support sudo-like authentication.
CCing its maintainers. We can use auth_self of course, but I don’t know
whether it is possible to easily restrict it to certain users.

If not, we will probably have to remove the “no root password” mode from
the installer.

Cheers,
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