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

[Rafael Belmonte]

I can say that Ubuntu uses sudo mode + PolicyKit successfully.

2010/3/7 Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>

> 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,
> --
>  .''`.      Josselin Mouette
> : :' :
> `. `'   “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in
>  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
>
>
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