Hi, I've Googled this aplenty and came across a multitude of possible reasons why this is happening, but I would rather solicit an answer detailing the "Debian way"... I hope I've not missed this posted elsewhere on the list/fora..
So, I'm running Wheezy, GNOME 3/gdm3, although my original install was using LXDE/lxdm, and then XFCE/LightDM - all of which I like, but I keep coming back to GNOME. The problem is that I plug in a USB drive and cannot mount it with a click in Nautilus without being prompted for my password. I would like to not be prompted for my password. A few of the processes currently running on my system: 2515 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 6192 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session 6196 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session 2569 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug My user is a member of the sudo, plugdev & fuse system groups. In gnome-session-properties, PolicyKit Authentication Agent is ticked (it points to /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1, which exists). If I try to execute /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 on a terminal, I get: ** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:10561): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject When I try "gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdb1" I get prompted through the GUI to enter my password. If I decline, I get: Error mounting /dev/dm-3: Not Authorized I get exactly the same if I try "udisks --mount /dev/sdb1" too. I think I'm missing a pretty simple piece of the puzzle here. I'm guessing it's policykit somewhere. A final point - the partition is encrypted with luks - but gnome-keyring seems to do a good job of using my saved password to decrypt the partition, when I click on the drive in Nautilus. It's then the password-less mount which fails... If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful. Many thanks, Steve -- Steve Dowe Warp Universal http://warp2.me/sd -- 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/501108ed.1040...@warpuniversal.co.uk
