On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:20:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 05:53:10 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm > > using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount > > a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to > > mount "[device]" Not Authorized". I do have Thunar set to mount > > removable media automatically. > > > > This seems to have been a problem from the start of 4.8; there's quite a > > bit of discussion of this for Arch Linux and Slackware, but I can't find > > anything useful for Debian. It seems to be an issue with ConsoleKit, but > > the solutions for Arch don't really apply for Debian as the setup is > > different. There was a discussion of this in the Debian forum when 4.8 > > came out at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63088&start=60 > > but there was no clean answer. > > The root cause is indeed consolekit. Have a try with this: > > In /etc/pam.d/common-session insert the line > > session optional pam_loginuid.co
(I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") > just before > > session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11 > > Log out and log in again. Or reboot. This works on my machines (and > should solve your restart/shut down problem also) but there is a plan B > if needed. I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect on USB-device mounting or on the restart/shutdown display. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111012121008.ga10...@panix.com
