Bug#788662: Logged-in user no longer granted permission to removable disks

[Josh Triplett]

On June 14, 2015 12:55:56 PM PDT, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>Am 14.06.2015 um 21:46 schrieb Josh Triplett:
>> In any case, it seems unfortunate that users can no longer write an
>> image to a USB disk without using root.
>
>You can, using gnome-disks/udisks2. Admittedly, there is no command
>line
>client for that, but with the D-Bus interfaces provided by udisks2, it
>would be possible to either add that for udisksctl [1] or some other
>command line tool.
>
>Michael
>
>[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781495

While it might be nice to add such operations to udisks2, that's not as flexible as permission to the device node, which would allow using arbitrary tools such as partitioners, filesystem tools, etc.  I agree with your comment in that bug that static groups are not the right solution. However, what about ACLs for a seat?