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alexk
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Post subject: How to allow user write-access to mounted filesystems (Solv)
 Posted: 08.12.2013, 00:12
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| My user can mount disk partitions in Dolphin, but only read them, not write to them, which isn't of much use to me. I have tried changing mount authorizations in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy but no luck so far, though the settings have an effect (e.g. I no longer need root privileges to mount my drive partitions). Anyone know how to allow a regular user to mount a disk partition with write access in Dolphin? |
Last edited by alexk on 08.12.2013, 18:06; edited 1 time in total
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slh
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Post subject: RE: How to allow user write-access to mounted filesystems?
Posted: 08.12.2013, 00:17
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I depends…
If you're talking about a UN*X filesystem, chown/ chmod (of the mounted mountpoint) are the way to go.
If you're talking about foreign filesystems (vfat, ntfs) you need to adapt the mount options (uid/ gid) accordingly.
That said, policykit should allow you access to removable drives already - fixed drives need according fstab entries. |
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alexk
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Post subject: RE: How to allow user write-access to mounted filesystems?
Posted: 08.12.2013, 04:36
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| I'm only trying to mount ext4 partitions of my primary hard disk. chown/chmod works, but I have to issue the commands as root every time I mount a partition, whether in Dolphin or on the command line. Is there a way around doing that? With the default policykit configuration, I have to give the root password to mount the partition in Dolphin (even with user or users option in fstab) unless my user has sudo privileges, in which case I have to give the user password, but then I still can't write to the partition, which is weird after authenticating. |
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hubi
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Post subject: RE: How to allow user write-access to mounted filesystems?
Posted: 08.12.2013, 12:55
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alexk
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Post subject: Re: RE: How to allow user write-access to mounted filesystem
Posted: 08.12.2013, 18:04
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slh wrote:
If you're talking about a UN*X filesystem, chown/ chmod (of the mounted mountpoint) are the way to go.
My bad, this was the solution. I hadn't done a chown/chmod on the mounted partition, only on the mountpoint.
I found out the user/users fstab options are overruled by org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy with udisks2, when not using mount commands directly, e.g. using dolphin or udisksctl. |
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